Sir Thomas Beecham

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Sir Thomas Beecham — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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7 episodes

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1980s

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Carl Davis
Dame Gladys Cooper
Kingsley Amis
Kirsten Flagstad
Rt Hon William Whitelaw
Sherrill Milnes

Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis on his youthful plan to be a poet, not a novelist
Castaway · 9 November 1986Michael Parkinson
Carl Davis
Carl Davis on replacing pianists too frightened to play for Robert Shaw
Castaway · 21 August 1982Roy Plomley

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

Rt Hon William Whitelaw

William Whitelaw on acting as a bouncer at Churchill's Cambridge speech

Castaway · 6 June 1981Roy Plomley

Michael Powell

19°53′S 123°39′W

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

How the War Office tried to stop Powell and Pressburger making Colonel Blimp

Castaway · 20 September 1980Roy Plomley

Sherrill Milnes

08°54′S 119°56′W

Sherrill Milnes

Sherrill Milnes on building something substantial to escape a desert island

Castaway · 10 January 1976Roy Plomley

Dame Gladys Cooper

23°17′S 091°19′W

Dame Gladys Cooper

Gladys Cooper on pretending to be Mary Hennessy to get her first stage role

Castaway · 23 December 1967Roy Plomley

Kirsten Flagstad

02°30′S 073°18′W

Kirsten Flagstad

Kirsten Flagstad on using her reading spectacles as a burning glass

Castaway · 29 April 1952Roy Plomley

Kingsley Amis

Carl Davis

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

Sherrill Milnes

Dame Gladys Cooper

Kirsten Flagstad