The Verve

Tuning in…

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

The Verve — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Professor Dame Carol Robinson
Carol Robinson on escaping out of her bedroom window as a child
Castaway · 10 August 2025Lauren Laverne
Ray Winstone
Ray Winstone on weeing on Ronnie Kray's raincoat
Castaway · 28 December 2014Kirsty Young

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

David Hempleman Adams on using a Margaret Thatcher book as toilet paper

Castaway · 9 August 1998Sue Lawley

04°00′S 026°19′W

Jack Straw on sitting on a suspect until the police arrived

Castaway · 12 July 1998Sue Lawley

11°25′S 106°03′W

Susan Blackmore on her out-of-body experience at Oxford

Castaway · 3 May 1998Sue Lawley