Jane Eyre

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

Jane Eyre — Book · desert is.land

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5 episodes

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1980s

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Donna Ockenden
Donna Ockenden on the promise she made to baby Gina
Castaway · 23 March 2025Lauren Laverne
Kay Mellor
Kay Mellor on wearing heavy clothes to a slimming group
Castaway · 29 October 2017Kirsty 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

Malorie Blackman on being accused of stealing a first-class train ticket

Castaway · 17 November 2013Kirsty Young

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Rachel Kempson on the doctor named Pink who delivered her baby

Castaway · 30 April 1989Sue Lawley

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Thomas Allen on being told he'd be a bloody fool not to pursue opera

Castaway · 6 November 1982Roy Plomley