Spice Girls — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Spice Girls — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Spice Girls

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

5

Total castaways

2010s

Peak decade

3

Decades seen

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Dame Sarah Storey
Dr Robert Langer
Katherine Ryan
Peter Blake
Rebecca Adlington

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Katherine Ryan
Katherine Ryan on the red leather gloves that defined her grandmother’s glamour
Castaway · 1 October 2023Lauren Laverne

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

Dr Robert Langer

Robert Langer on a senior faculty member blowing smoke in his face

Castaway · 16 October 2016Kirsty Young

Rebecca Adlington

07°04′S 120°31′W

Rebecca Adlington

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Castaway · 14 June 2015Kirsty Young

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Peter Blake

Peter Blake on being paid £200 for the Sgt. Pepper album cover

Castaway · 23 March 1997Sue Lawley