The Everly Brothers — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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The Everly Brothers — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

The Everly Brothers

10 episodes

Chosen over the decades

10

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

6

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Alan Yentob
Anita Dobson
Christine McVie
Elaine Paige
Graham Nash
Kate Atkinson
Lady Warnock
Lucinda Lambton
Peter Blake
Tim Rice

Graham Nash
Graham Nash on his father being jailed for a stolen camera
Castaway · 7 January 2024Lauren Laverne
Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson on burying her father the day before winning the Whitbread Book of the Year
Castaway · 25 November 2018Lauren 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
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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

Christine McVie

Christine McVie on writing Songbird after champagne and cocaine

Castaway · 17 December 2017Kirsty Young

05°00′S 086°25′W

Tim Rice

How a rejected idea led Tim Rice to meet Andrew Lloyd Webber

Castaway · 27 June 2004Sue Lawley

00°39′S 081°33′W

Alan Yentob

Alan Yentob on his mother's objection to the term 'immigrant family'

Castaway · 8 October 1995Sue Lawley

Lucinda Lambton

08°13′S 004°34′W

Lucinda Lambton

Lucinda Lambton on swimming to an island with a saw between her teeth

Castaway · 1 October 1989Sue Lawley

06°00′S 063°31′W

Lady Warnock

Mary Warnock on timing her babies for the long vacation

Castaway · 4 December 1988Michael Parkinson

15°52′S 172°44′W

Anita Dobson

Anita Dobson on performing acrobatics in a red bikini as a child

Castaway · 28 August 1988Michael Parkinson

12°59′S 067°13′W

Elaine Paige

Elaine Paige on her fourth audition for Evita thinking ‘Here we go again’

Castaway · 12 July 1987Michael Parkinson

00°25′S 177°48′W

Peter Blake

Peter Blake on starting art school in short trousers

Castaway · 12 May 1979Roy Plomley