One Thousand and One Nights

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

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

One Thousand and One Nights — Book · desert is.land

Book

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Raja Shehadeh
Raja Shehadeh on the military governor calling his father to warn him about his activism
Castaway · 15 June 2014Kirsty Young
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood on writing her first poem while crossing a football field
Castaway · 13 April 2003Sue Lawley

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

Eve Arnold on Marilyn Monroe asking her 'Where do I go from here?'

Castaway · 4 February 1996Sue Lawley

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Doris Lessing on returning to Zimbabwe to find the birds gone

Castaway · 21 November 1993Sue Lawley