Sinéad O'Connor — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Sinéad O'Connor — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Sinéad O'Connor

10 episodes

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10

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2020s

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3

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David Walliams
Delia Smith
Graham Norton
Guli Francis-Dehqani
Jessie Buckley
John Boyne
Paulo Coelho
Rob Delaney
Sinead Cusack

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Castaway · 7 July 2024Lauren Laverne

desert is.land

“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

John Boyne on hearing his first novel was accepted while watching EastEnders

Castaway · 26 May 2024Lauren Laverne

Guli Francis-Dehqani

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Delia Smith

Delia Smith on dining with the Queen after receiving her Companion of Honour

Castaway · 24 December 2023Lauren Laverne

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David Walliams

David Walliams on signing autographs in a hospice as his father died

Castaway · 22 February 2009Kirsty Young

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Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho on escaping a psychiatric hospital twice

Castaway · 3 July 2005Sue Lawley

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Graham Norton

Graham Norton on Joan Collins’s phone call with a glove fetishist

Castaway · 2 May 2004Sue Lawley

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Sinead Cusack

Sinead Cusack on being expelled for a school sketch about the Profumo affair

Castaway · 15 December 2002Sue Lawley

Benjamin Zephaniah

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Benjamin Zephaniah on writing his first book when he could hardly read or write

Castaway · 8 June 1997Sue Lawley