Great Expectations

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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Great Expectations — Book · desert is.land

Book

5 episodes

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Total castaways

2000s

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Sir Ben Ainslie
Ben Ainslie on returning to school as a world champion
Castaway · 26 January 2014Kirsty Young
Andrew Davies
Andrew Davies on making up scenes and convincing people Jane Austen wrote them
Castaway · 5 August 2007Kirsty Young

desert is.land

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

The listing

Transmission

Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Terry O'Neill on accidentally photographing a sleeping Rap Butler at Heathrow

Castaway · 28 January 2001Sue Lawley

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Richard Briers on being fired from amateur dramatics at 14 for speaking too fast

Castaway · 17 December 2000Sue Lawley

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Dinsdale Landen on seeing Paul Schofield play Alexander the Great

Castaway · 16 December 1978Roy Plomley