Tito Schipa

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

Tito Schipa — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

6 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1960s

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Castaways who chose this

Clive James
Giovanni Martinelli
Luciano Pavarotti
Salvatore Accardo
Sir Francis McLean
Tennessee Williams

Clive James
How living in a basement stopped Clive James from jumping
Castaway · 11 June 2000Sue Lawley
Salvatore Accardo
Salvatore Accardo on learning to read music before he could read print
Castaway · 26 April 1980Roy Plomley

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

Tennessee Williams

How seeing Ibsen's Ghosts moved Tennessee Williams out of his seat

Castaway · 9 September 1978Roy Plomley

Luciano Pavarotti

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Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti on not being able to imagine himself alone for more than a day

Castaway · 14 February 1976Roy Plomley

Sir Francis McLean

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Sir Francis McLean

Francis McLean on entering Paris on the day it was liberated

Castaway · 12 August 1968Roy Plomley

Giovanni Martinelli

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Giovanni Martinelli

Giovanni Martinelli on his bandmaster discovering his voice in the army

Castaway · 18 June 1962Roy Plomley

Clive James

Salvatore Accardo

Luciano Pavarotti

Sir Francis McLean

Giovanni Martinelli