Walter Gieseking — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Walter Gieseking — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Walter Gieseking

10 episodes

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10

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

6

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Derek Tangye
Egon Ronay
Helen Bradley
Kirsten Flagstad
Lord Bernard Miles
Marie Collier
Patience Strong
Sir Roy Calne
Terence Stamp

Terence Stamp
How a letter in an ashram brought Terence Stamp back to play General Zod
Castaway · 12 March 2006Sue Lawley
Sir Roy Calne
Roy Calne on the collie dog that bounded into an auditorium after a kidney transplant
Castaway · 25 February 1996Sue Lawley

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
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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

Lord Bernard Miles

Bernard Miles on early morning trips to Covent Garden aged five

Castaway · 20 March 1982Roy Plomley

18°09′S 056°57′W

Derek Tangye

Derek Tangye on being marooned on a tropical island near Tahiti

Castaway · 1 November 1980Roy Plomley

09°10′S 023°23′W

Egon Ronay

Egon Ronay on how a friend drinking a Russian commander under the table helped him leave Budapest

Castaway · 19 February 1977Roy Plomley

11°13′S 105°34′W

Helen Bradley

How Helen Bradley painted with a fish slice and a dinner plate

Castaway · 5 July 1975Roy Plomley

Dame Sibyl Hathaway

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Dame Sibyl Hathaway

Sibyl Hathaway on why Sark still bans divorce and female dogs

Castaway · 23 October 1971Roy Plomley

03°21′S 065°46′W

Marie Collier

Marie Collier on replacing Maria Callas in Tosca at short notice

Castaway · 21 February 1966Roy Plomley

Patience Strong

01°03′S 082°02′W

Patience Strong

Patience Strong on the book that gave her her pen name

Castaway · 10 January 1966Roy Plomley

Kirsten Flagstad

02°30′S 073°18′W

Kirsten Flagstad

Kirsten Flagstad on using her reading spectacles as a burning glass

Castaway · 29 April 1952Roy Plomley