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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

desert is.landest. 1942

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The Beatles

276 episodes

Chosen over the decades

275

Total castaways

2000s

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7

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Alan Alda
Alan Bleasdale
Alan Johnson
Alan Parker
Alan Pascoe
Alfie Boe
Andrew Neil
Anita Dobson
Annie Lennox
Anthony Grey
Anthony Horowitz
Antonio Carluccio
Antony Gormley
Arthur Askey
Arundhati Roy
Aung San Suu Kyi
Baroness Haleh Afshar
Baroness Hale of Richmond
Barry Norman
Ben Elton
Beryl Bainbridge
Betty Jackson
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Wayne Sleep
Wayne Sleep on his mother turning down a BBC singing contract
Castaway · 29 October 1977Roy Plomley
Billy Connolly
Billy Connolly on buying a banjo for two pounds in Glasgow
Castaway · 30 July 1977Roy Plomley

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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

Shirley Conran on walking down Tottenham Court Road with her morale shattered

Castaway · 16 July 1977Roy Plomley

03°53′S 082°29′W

Mirella Freni

Mirella Freni on being 'brother in milk' with Luciano Pavarotti

Castaway · 11 June 1977Roy Plomley

03°23′S 042°44′W

Frank Muir

How claiming to organise concert parties got Frank Muir out of RAF guard duty

Castaway · 2 October 1976Roy Plomley

09°19′S 169°56′W

Penelope Keith

Penelope Keith on the sewing machine needle that ended her piano playing

Castaway · 21 August 1976Roy Plomley

22°59′S 161°48′W

James Galway

James Galway on being forced by German law to take a job he won

Castaway · 14 August 1976Roy Plomley

20°14′S 177°33′W

Alan Pascoe

Alan Pascoe on why he switched to the 400m hurdles rather than take drugs

Castaway · 10 July 1976Roy Plomley

Douglas Fairbanks Jnr

22°33′S 159°17′W

Douglas Fairbanks Jnr

Douglas Fairbanks Jnr on being sacked from his first film job at 13

Castaway · 29 May 1976Roy Plomley

Dr Christiaan Barnard

17°32′S 122°50′W

Dr Christiaan Barnard

Christiaan Barnard on the loneliness after his first transplant patient died

Castaway · 17 April 1976Roy Plomley

Charlotte Rampling

15°13′S 139°06′W

Charlotte Rampling

How seeing herself in Rotten to the Core left Charlotte Rampling in tears

Castaway · 3 April 1976Roy Plomley

04°16′S 154°28′W

Lynn Seymour

Lynn Seymour on being bowled over by a dancer after watching The Red Shoes

Castaway · 7 February 1976Roy Plomley

22°34′S 114°42′W

Patricia Hayes

Patricia Hayes on a down-and-out woman asking to sit on her lap

Castaway · 19 April 1975Roy Plomley

05°17′S 158°22′W

Jilly Cooper

How Jilly Cooper lost 50,000 words of a novel on a bus

Castaway · 8 March 1975Roy Plomley

09°28′S 114°51′W

Bruce Tulloh

Bruce Tulloh on getting the idea to run across America from the Guinness Book of Records

Castaway · 23 November 1974Roy Plomley

Professor Barry Cunliffe

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Professor Barry Cunliffe

Barry Cunliffe on how a young excavator’s neat cut uncovered a Roman inscription in Bath

Castaway · 19 August 1972Roy Plomley

10°53′S 164°51′W

Joan Bakewell

Joan Bakewell on asking women about birth control at Shepherd's Bush market

Castaway · 13 May 1972Roy Plomley

10°02′S 018°45′W

Graham Kerr

Graham Kerr on causing 17 questions in Parliament

Castaway · 4 December 1971Roy Plomley

Maurice Woodruff

05°09′S 124°05′W

Maurice Woodruff

Maurice Woodruff on why he never tells a client they will die

Castaway · 26 June 1971Roy Plomley

00°45′S 062°09′W

Geoff Boycott

Geoff Boycott on teaching monkeys to bowl coconuts

Castaway · 10 April 1971Roy Plomley

23°52′S 130°25′W

Harvey Smith

Harvey Smith on his first success in a novice competition at Nelson

Castaway · 13 February 1971Roy Plomley

02°57′S 056°22′W

Anthony Grey

Anthony Grey on renaming Desert Island Discs 'Donatitis Discs'

Castaway · 1 November 1969Roy Plomley

13°48′S 078°30′W

Nicolai Gedda

Nicolai Gedda on being engaged on the spot after an audition

Castaway · 12 May 1969Roy Plomley

10°06′S 022°47′W

Arthur Askey

How thin walls helped Arthur Askey learn the piano

Castaway · 23 December 1968Roy Plomley

07°15′S 064°12′W

Lavinia Young

Lavinia Young on mumbling 'Man's inhumanity to man' as bombs fell

Castaway · 21 December 1964Roy Plomley

00°09′S 176°03′W

David Jacobs

David Jacobs on the screw points that ruined his perfect cupboard mirror

Castaway · 25 May 1964Roy Plomley