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desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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DIY manual — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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8 episodes

Chosen over the decades

8

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Baroness Arminka Helić
Bruce Fogle
David Attenborough
David Jason OBE
Jeremy Irons
Joseph Cotten
June Whitfield
Sir David Attenborough

Baroness Arminka Helić
Arminka Helić on being called in aged 14 to become a communist
Castaway · 13 October 2019Lauren Laverne
Sir David Attenborough
David Attenborough on his father running down the allotment with the news he won a scholarship
Castaway · 29 January 2012Kirsty Young
Bruce Fogle

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

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

Castaway · 19 August 2001Sue Lawley

David Jason OBE

01°15′S 057°13′W

David Jason OBE

David Jason on a lonely Christmas dinner in a panto boarding house

Castaway · 25 December 1994Sue Lawley

00°30′S 091°25′W

June Whitfield

June Whitfield on corpsing with Eric Morecambe

Castaway · 29 April 1990Sue Lawley

04°24′S 144°34′W

Jeremy Irons

How failing science exams ended Jeremy Irons's dream of being a vet

Castaway · 2 November 1986Michael Parkinson

00°00′S 168°27′W

Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cotten on his bishop warning him the stage leads to hell

Castaway · 24 October 1981Roy Plomley

David Attenborough

12°09′S 079°55′W

David Attenborough

David Attenborough on predicting horseshoe crabs breeding in Chesapeake Bay

Castaway · 10 March 1979Roy Plomley