Toots and the Maytals

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“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Toots and the Maytals — Artist · desert is.land

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4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2020s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Professor Dame Pamela Shaw
Pamela Shaw on her headmistress telling her young ladies didn't need physics and chemistry
Castaway · 9 August 2026Lauren Laverne
Jack Thorne
Jack Thorne on being cast as Carrot Bum for being lonely and weird
Castaway · 12 December 2021Lauren Laverne

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

Sabrina Cohen-Hatton on eating out of a bin

Castaway · 29 September 2019Lauren Laverne

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Martha Lane Fox on her father's horror if she'd become a banker

Castaway · 4 January 2004Sue Lawley