Simple Minds

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“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Simple Minds — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2020s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Sir Jony Ive
How sleeping on the factory floor helped Jony Ive perfect the iPhone
Castaway · 23 February 2025Lauren Laverne
Sarah Raven
Sarah Raven on her father trusting her word to identify flowers
Castaway · 28 July 2024Lauren Laverne
Bono

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

The listing

Transmission

Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Bono on turning a song into a prayer

Castaway · 26 June 2022Lauren Laverne

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How chefs bet on how long Angela Hartnett would last at Aubergine

Castaway · 14 January 2018Kirsty Young

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John Bishop on the night his ex-wife appeared during his 'head in the fridge' joke

Castaway · 24 June 2012Kirsty Young