Poem for the Day

Tuning in…

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

Poem for the Day — Book · desert is.land

Book

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2010s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Dame Esther Rantzen
How Esther Rantzen faced 50,000 calls on ChildLine's first night
Castaway · 10 March 2019Lauren Laverne
Anna Scher
Anna Scher on coming home to find her mother had left
Castaway · 18 November 2011Kirsty Young
Julia Donaldson

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

Julia Donaldson on her son persuading her to finish The Gruffalo

Castaway · 15 November 2009Kirsty Young