Other Men's Flowers

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Other Men's Flowers — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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1990s

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Dame Judi Dench
Jocelyn Stevens
Julia Samuel
Lord Alexander
Lord Browne
Michael Wood
Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar
Sir John Glubb

Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar
Jeremy Farrar on failing his A-levels
Castaway · 6 December 2020Lauren Laverne
Dame Judi Dench
Judi Dench on her first role as a snail
Castaway · 20 September 2015Kirsty Young
Julia Samuel

desert is.land

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

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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

Julia Samuel on not knowing babies could die until she chaired Birthright

Castaway · 1 March 2015Kirsty Young

Lord Browne

07°20′S 151°54′W

Lord Browne

John Browne on a professor who thought his business ambition was funny

Castaway · 2 July 2006Sue Lawley

Lord Alexander

19°12′S 079°30′W

Lord Alexander

How a surprise visit from the chairman of NatWest led Alexander to leave the bar for banking

Castaway · 17 March 1996Sue Lawley

Jocelyn Stevens

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Jocelyn Stevens

How Jocelyn Stevens's father saw him as the murderer of his mother

Castaway · 8 March 1992Sue Lawley

Michael Wood

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Michael Wood

How a V-1 bomb narrowly missed Michael Wood during the Blitz

Castaway · 19 March 1983Roy Plomley

Sir John Glubb

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Sir John Glubb

John Glubb on finding his World War I diary after 50 years in a trunk

Castaway · 15 April 1978Roy Plomley