Willie Nelson — Artist · desert is.land

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

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Willie Nelson

11 episodes

Chosen over the decades

11

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

3

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Alan Price
Bernard Cornwell
Bill Gates
Bruce Fogle
Grayson Perry
Jeremy Deller
Martin Bell
Professor Baruch Blumberg
Ricky Gervais
Selina Scott
Stephanie Beacham

Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller on walking away from his Battle of Orgreave reenactment to buy a chocolate bar
Castaway · 6 January 2019Lauren Laverne
Bill Gates
Bill Gates on being sent to a child psychologist for being disruptive
Castaway · 31 January 2016Kirsty Young

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

Ricky Gervais on not knowing he was poor until university

Castaway · 24 June 2007Kirsty Young

05°28′S 178°09′W

Grayson Perry

How winning the Turner Prize made Grayson Perry feel allowed

Castaway · 18 February 2007Kirsty Young

Bernard Cornwell

03°32′S 110°24′W

Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell on promising to write a book to win his wife

Castaway · 18 April 2004Sue Lawley

Professor Baruch Blumberg

06°21′S 140°46′W

Professor Baruch Blumberg

Baruch Blumberg on the three years it took to connect an Australian blood sample to hepatitis B

Castaway · 19 January 2003Sue Lawley

07°57′S 116°26′W

Bruce Fogle

Bruce Fogle on a punk client crying over her rat's mammary tumor

Castaway · 19 August 2001Sue Lawley

15°13′S 019°38′W

Martin Bell

Martin Bell on what TV wouldn't broadcast from the Bosnian war

Castaway · 15 July 2001Sue Lawley

Stephanie Beacham

11°46′S 141°46′W

Stephanie Beacham

How a failed marriage jolted Stephanie Beacham into Hollywood

Castaway · 28 February 1988Michael Parkinson

10°55′S 119°53′W

Selina Scott

Selina Scott on earning a penny a line by covering funerals and weddings aged 14

Castaway · 23 February 1986Michael Parkinson

08°46′S 111°23′W

Alan Price

Alan Price on the Animals' name coming from a squatter called Animal Hogg

Castaway · 4 December 1982Roy Plomley

Willie Nelson — Artist · desert is.land