The Jam — Artist · desert is.land

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

The Jam — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

The Jam

14 episodes

Chosen over the decades

14

Total castaways

2010s

Peak decade

3

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Amanda Blanc
Ann Daniels
Carolyn McCall
Karren Brady
Lee Mack
Lord Prescott
Micky Flanagan
Monica Dolan
Paul Abbott
Professor Brian Cox
Professor Tim Spector
Ray Mears
Sir Clive Woodward
Tony Adams

Monica Dolan
Monica Dolan on secretly withdrawing her university application
Castaway · 27 July 2025Lauren Laverne
Professor Tim Spector
Tim Spector on the helicopter crash that caught fire
Castaway · 31 March 2024Lauren Laverne
Amanda Blanc

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

Amanda Blanc on her husband's offer to give up his career for hers

Castaway · 12 March 2023Lauren Laverne

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Micky Flanagan

Micky Flanagan on the summer of his life working in a kitchen

Castaway · 19 November 2017Kirsty Young

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Ray Mears

Ray Mears on the sound of aluminium grinding in his helicopter crash

Castaway · 5 January 2014Kirsty Young

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Carolyn McCall

Carolyn McCall on never cooking until university

Castaway · 6 October 2013Kirsty Young

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Lee Mack

Lee Mack on doing Bobby Ball impressions to fit in at a new school

Castaway · 29 September 2013Kirsty Young

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Lord Prescott

John Prescott on failing the Eleven Plus

Castaway · 19 February 2012Kirsty Young

Professor Brian Cox

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Professor Brian Cox

Brian Cox on wanting his grandfather to see him at Buckingham Palace

Castaway · 30 December 2011Kirsty Young

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Tony Adams

Tony Adams on being chased by England supporters at Luton Airport

Castaway · 27 June 2010Kirsty Young

Sir Clive Woodward

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Sir Clive Woodward

Clive Woodward on watching the blood capsule scandal on TV

Castaway · 21 February 2010Kirsty Young

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Karren Brady

Karren Brady on being asked for her vital statistics at her first press conference

Castaway · 30 December 2007Kirsty Young

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Paul Abbott

Paul Abbott on knocking on his mother's door and discovering he'd been swapped

Castaway · 11 February 2007Kirsty Young

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Ann Daniels

How a nurse told Ann Daniels she wouldn't cope with her triplets

Castaway · 21 January 2007Kirsty Young