Long Walk to Freedom — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Long Walk to Freedom — Book · desert is.land

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Book

Long Walk to Freedom

9 episodes

Chosen over the decades

9

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Bill Morris
Dame Sue Campbell
Helen Browning
Joel Joffe
Lord Joffe
Michael Holding
Nicola Benedetti
Sir Gulam Noon
Thomas Quasthoff

Michael Holding
Michael Holding on his impromptu four-minute monologue on racism
Castaway · 12 September 2021Lauren Laverne
Dame Sue Campbell
How Sue Campbell's mother gave her life twice
Castaway · 19 January 2020Lauren Laverne
Helen Browning

desert is.land

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

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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

Helen Browning on walking out of her A-levels to be with her dying brother

Castaway · 17 May 2015Kirsty Young

Nicola Benedetti

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Nicola Benedetti

Nicola Benedetti on choosing to practise over a birthday party aged eight

Castaway · 12 January 2014Kirsty Young

Thomas Quasthoff

17°05′S 097°36′W

Thomas Quasthoff

Thomas Quasthoff on being found singing melodies before he could talk

Castaway · 1 February 2009Kirsty Young

09°41′S 017°28′W

Joel Joffe

Castaway · 28 October 2007Kirsty Young

01°23′S 050°27′W

Lord Joffe

Joffe on first meeting Nelson Mandela in a prison consulting room

Castaway · 28 October 2007Kirsty Young

21°35′S 163°12′W

Sir Gulam Noon

Gulam Noon on promising his mother he'd take care of everything after his father died

Castaway · 7 March 2004Sue Lawley

10°19′S 177°00′W

Bill Morris

Bill Morris on being told sawdust grows on trees

Castaway · 22 November 1998Sue Lawley