Cookbook — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Cookbook — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Cookbook

6 episodes

Chosen over the decades

6

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Albert Roux
Billie Whitelaw
Gwen Berryman
Kyra Vayne
Mrs Mills
Yolande Donlan

Kyra Vayne
Kyra Vayne on eating potato peels and rotten fish bones to survive the Russian Revolution
Castaway · 24 March 1996Sue Lawley
Albert Roux and Michel Roux
Castaway · 26 October 1986Michael Parkinson
Gwen Berryman
Gwen Berryman on being named Margarita after the character in Faust

desert is.land

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

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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

Castaway · 1 January 1972Roy Plomley

Billie Whitelaw

07°52′S 134°21′W

Billie Whitelaw

Castaway · 1 May 1971Roy Plomley

21°00′S 135°56′W

Mrs Mills

Castaway · 17 April 1971Roy Plomley

14°45′S 010°19′W

Yolande Donlan

Castaway · 10 April 1953Roy Plomley