Pride and Prejudice — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Pride and Prejudice — Book · desert is.land

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Pride and Prejudice

9 episodes

Chosen over the decades

9

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Angela Rippon
Carolyn McCall
Charlotte Lamb
Heather Rabbatts
Helen Fielding
Jack Mapanje
Karren Brady
Marguerite Patten
Rt Hon Theresa May

Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding on the time her film crew drove over a landmine
Castaway · 5 July 2020Lauren Laverne
Rt Hon Theresa May
Theresa May on a family coming to complain to her vicar father
Castaway · 23 November 2014Kirsty Young

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
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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

Carolyn McCall on never cooking until university

Castaway · 6 October 2013Kirsty Young

Heather Rabbatts

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Heather Rabbatts

Heather Rabbatts on being called monkey and half breed at school

Castaway · 24 July 2011Kirsty Young

05°51′S 021°38′W

Karren Brady

Karren Brady on being asked for her vital statistics at her first press conference

Castaway · 30 December 2007Kirsty Young

20°29′S 073°01′W

Jack Mapanje

Jack Mapanje on a phone call in Gaelic that may have saved his life

Castaway · 24 October 2004Sue Lawley

Marguerite Patten

18°38′S 092°32′W

Marguerite Patten

Marguerite Patten on rescuing a rabbit pie from the floor

Castaway · 21 January 2001Sue Lawley

07°39′S 081°50′W

Charlotte Lamb

Charlotte Lamb on writing an entire novel in three days

Castaway · 10 September 1983Roy Plomley

11°55′S 175°05′W

Angela Rippon

How a chance telephone call got Angela Rippon into television

Castaway · 16 January 1982Roy Plomley