Atlas

desert is.landest. 1942

Find a castaway Most requested Browse the archive About Report a fault

Tuning in…

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

Atlas — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

Find a castaway Most requested Browse the archive About Report a fault

Book

8 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2010s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Baroness Campbell
James Prior
Joanna Lumley
Judi Dench
Mairi Hedderwick
Paul Johnson
Sir Bernard Ingham
Sir Keir Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer on his mother never speaking to his children
Castaway · 15 November 2020Lauren Laverne
Mairi Hedderwick
Mairi Hedderwick on crying while watching Katie Morag's TV wedding on a beach
Castaway · 2 March 2014Kirsty 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

Baroness Campbell

Jane Campbell on the doctor who presumed she wouldn't want to be resuscitated

Castaway · 5 August 2012Kirsty Young

Paul Johnson

02°21′S 140°57′W

Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson on finding he didn’t enjoy power as editor of the New Statesman

Castaway · 15 January 2012Kirsty Young

Joanna Lumley

12°11′S 041°49′W

Joanna Lumley

Joanna Lumley on being put in a private hospital room because she had no male visitor

Castaway · 13 May 2007Kirsty Young

Judi Dench

18°08′S 150°43′W

Judi Dench

How seeing King Lear at Stratford led Judi Dench to become an actor

Castaway · 12 April 1998Sue Lawley

Sir Bernard Ingham

01°17′S 034°14′W

Sir Bernard Ingham

How Bernard Ingham blamed 'knifing Tories' for Thatcher's fall

Castaway · 21 May 1995Sue Lawley

James Prior

01°27′S 057°39′W

James Prior

How James Prior challenged the minister of food over his school pig club

Castaway · 11 January 1987Michael Parkinson

Sir Keir Starmer

Mairi Hedderwick

Paul Johnson

Joanna Lumley

Judi Dench

Sir Bernard Ingham

James Prior