The B-52's

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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

The B-52's — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

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Total castaways

2020s

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Castaways who chose this

Rob Delaney
Rob Delaney on meeting his wife while caring for a 17-year-old girl with cerebral palsy
Castaway · 7 July 2024Lauren Laverne
Adele
How postponing her Las Vegas residency left Adele a shell of a person
Castaway · 3 July 2022Lauren Laverne
Colonel Lucy Giles

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

Lucy Giles on an 18-hour logistic convoy through the snow in Bosnia

Castaway · 27 December 2020Lauren Laverne