Four Quartets — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Four Quartets — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Book

Four Quartets

6 episodes

Chosen over the decades

6

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Dr George Carey
Jack Higgins
Jeanette Winterson
Kate Mosse
Maxwell Hutchinson
Stephen Fry

Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse on her father holding her first after a premature birth
Castaway · 25 June 2023Lauren Laverne
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry on his psychiatrist's frustration that his parents weren't in the diplomatic corps
Castaway · 21 June 2015Kirsty 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
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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

Dr George Carey

George Carey on finding his friend missing after a bombing raid

Castaway · 7 May 1995Sue Lawley

Jeanette Winterson

12°01′S 067°52′W

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson on deciding never to read reviews

Castaway · 9 October 1994Sue Lawley

Maxwell Hutchinson

13°58′S 123°08′W

Maxwell Hutchinson

How Maxwell Hutchinson could play the Dambusters March on piano without ever being taught

Castaway · 1 September 1991Sue Lawley

01°46′S 085°55′W

Jack Higgins

Jack Higgins on his first job as a messenger boy in the Leeds cleansing department

Castaway · 12 December 1981Roy Plomley