Middlemarch — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Middlemarch — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Book

Middlemarch

11 episodes

Chosen over the decades

11

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

7

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Alan Hacker
Baroness Blackstone
Eleanor Bron
Harriet Wistrich
Jancis Robinson
P D James
Professor Alice Roberts
Sir Clifford Curzon
Stephen Hawking
Tina Brown
Tony Robinson

Harriet Wistrich
Harriet Wistrich on becoming DJ Hazer during lockdown
Castaway · 19 January 2025Lauren Laverne
Professor Alice Roberts
Alice Roberts on rollerblading through hospital tunnels for ward rounds
Castaway · 24 March 2024Lauren Laverne

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

How Tony Robinson's Blackadder role came from an act of desperation

Castaway · 3 July 2011Kirsty Young

17°01′S 168°21′W

Tina Brown

How Tina Brown sacked 79 people in her first year at The New Yorker

Castaway · 3 December 2000Sue Lawley

Jancis Robinson

22°52′S 157°12′W

Jancis Robinson

How a 1959 Burgundy took Jancis Robinson to another place

Castaway · 27 October 1996Sue Lawley

19°05′S 052°04′W

Alan Hacker

How playing the Mozart clarinet quintet helped Alan Hacker recover from paralysis

Castaway · 17 April 1994Sue Lawley

Baroness Blackstone

22°43′S 167°04′W

Baroness Blackstone

Tessa Blackstone on being dubbed dark-eyed evil genius

Castaway · 25 April 1993Sue Lawley

Stephen Hawking

05°13′S 128°02′W

Stephen Hawking

How a tracheostomy saved Stephen Hawking's life but took his voice

Castaway · 25 December 1992Sue Lawley

18°34′S 054°15′W

P D James

P D James on starting her first novel by getting up early in her late thirties

Castaway · 20 November 1982Roy Plomley

Sir Clifford Curzon

02°42′S 156°47′W

Sir Clifford Curzon

Clifford Curzon on his first paid performance in a freezing Kennington church

Castaway · 17 June 1978Roy Plomley

05°36′S 062°00′W

Eleanor Bron

Eleanor Bron on realising there was nothing on the other side of the wall

Castaway · 24 June 1968Roy Plomley