In Search of the Miraculous

Tuning in…

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

In Search of the Miraculous — Book · desert is.land

Book

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2020s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović on the moment the public put a loaded pistol in her hand
Castaway · 3 December 2023Lauren Laverne
Brian Cox
Brian Cox on his sister presenting him from behind a coal bunker curtain
Castaway · 29 March 2020Lauren Laverne

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

Brian Blessed on refusing oxygen on Everest to feel the mountain

Castaway · 4 June 1995Sue Lawley