Various Artists

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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

Various Artists — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Anthony Julius
Anthony Julius on telling Princess Diana he had never done a divorce case
Castaway · 13 November 2009Kirsty Young
Ruth Padel
Ruth Padel on the moment she chose to retreat from a tigress in Russia
Castaway · 11 January 2009Kirsty Young
Nicola Horlick

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

Nicola Horlick on Sky vans and film crews arriving at her door

Castaway · 29 July 2007Kirsty Young

10°20′S 173°50′W

Peter Rogers on giving audiences the licorice all sorts they want

Castaway · 20 October 1973Roy Plomley

05°07′S 015°41′W

John Paddy Carstairs on putting on his first shows at the age of four

Castaway · 7 December 1959Roy Plomley