Les Misérables — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Les Misérables — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Les Misérables

5 episodes

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5

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2000s

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4

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Cyril Mills
Felicity Lott
Jayne-Anne Gadhia
Mark McCormack
Roberto Alagna

Jayne-Anne Gadhia
Jayne-Anne Gadhia on feeling like Dementors had come into the room with postnatal depression
Castaway · 23 July 2017Kirsty Young
Roberto Alagna
Roberto Alagna on hearing 'You will die in three months'
Castaway · 16 August 2009Kirsty 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
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

Felicity Lott

Felicity Lott on replacing Barbara Walker at the English National Opera

Castaway · 13 July 2008Kirsty Young

18°00′S 153°11′W

Mark McCormack

Mark McCormack on being hit by a car at six and taking up golf

Castaway · 2 July 1989Sue Lawley

11°46′S 122°12′W

Cyril Mills

Castaway · 30 January 1961Roy Plomley