Simply Red

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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

Simply Red — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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8 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Anita Roddick
Dame Zaha Hadid
David Jason OBE
Frankie Dettori
Gary Lineker
Leslie Grantham
Rowan Atkinson
Sue Townsend

Dame Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid on learning that buildings can't float
Castaway · 21 February 2016Kirsty Young
Frankie Dettori
Frankie Dettori on the day he rode seven winners at Ascot
Castaway · 15 January 2006Sue Lawley

desert is.land

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

The listing

Find a castaway
Most requested
Browse the archive
About

Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
Report a fault

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

David Jason OBE

David Jason on a lonely Christmas dinner in a panto boarding house

Castaway · 25 December 1994Sue Lawley

Sue Townsend

00°56′S 108°47′W

Sue Townsend

Sue Townsend on learning to read at eight with William books

Castaway · 8 December 1991Sue Lawley

Gary Lineker

02°31′S 118°05′W

Gary Lineker

Gary Lineker on using household lamps to play football in the winter dark

Castaway · 30 September 1990Sue Lawley

Leslie Grantham

01°20′S 173°22′W

Leslie Grantham

Leslie Grantham on buying cat food for a cat he didn't have

Castaway · 9 April 1989Sue Lawley

Anita Roddick

19°24′S 095°11′W

Anita Roddick

Anita Roddick on being turned down by a bank in a Bob Dylan t-shirt with her babies

Castaway · 22 May 1988Michael Parkinson

Rowan Atkinson

18°52′S 029°55′W

Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Atkinson on improvising in front of a mirror to create his first characters

Castaway · 15 May 1988Michael Parkinson

Dame Zaha Hadid

Frankie Dettori

Sue Townsend

Gary Lineker

Leslie Grantham

Anita Roddick

Rowan Atkinson