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The Complete Works — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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The Complete Works

15 episodes

Chosen over the decades

15

Total castaways

2000s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Andy Kershaw
Ann Leslie
Benjamin Luxon
Bill Bailey
Brian Keenan
Felicity Kendal
Jimmy Mulville
Lynn Barber
Rob Brydon
Sinead Cusack
Sir Christopher Bland
Sir Roger Norrington
Sir Terry Leahy
Stanley McMurtry
Vladimir Jurowski

Sir Terry Leahy
Terry Leahy on being the class clown at school
Castaway · 3 February 2013Kirsty Young
Jimmy Mulville
Jimmy Mulville on spending a year contemplating the death of his acting dreams
Castaway · 1 August 2010Kirsty Young
Lynn Barber

desert is.land

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

The listing

Find a castaway
Most requested
Browse the archive
About

Transmission

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

Lynn Barber on meeting a conman at a bus stop

Castaway · 25 July 2010Kirsty Young

14°30′S 031°25′W

Rob Brydon

Rob Brydon on the shopping channel job that stalled his acting career

Castaway · 16 May 2010Kirsty Young

01°59′S 059°34′W

Bill Bailey

Bill Bailey on rehearsing his act during a delirious walk home

Castaway · 8 June 2008Kirsty Young

Stanley McMurtry

20°26′S 005°21′W

Stanley McMurtry

How a little boy's Pokemon cards put Stanley McMurtry in his place

Castaway · 23 March 2008Kirsty Young

Vladimir Jurowski

08°06′S 094°07′W

Vladimir Jurowski

Vladimir Jurowski on conducting La Bohème the day after his father's heart attack

Castaway · 19 August 2007Kirsty Young

00°04′S 116°13′W

Andy Kershaw

Andy Kershaw on being the Radio 1 DJ who covered the Rwandan genocide

Castaway · 11 March 2007Kirsty Young

18°10′S 090°17′W

Ann Leslie

Ann Leslie on deciding not to die in hospital for her family's sake

Castaway · 7 November 2004Sue Lawley

Sir Christopher Bland

01°14′S 120°16′W

Sir Christopher Bland

Christopher Bland on saying bollocks in the council chamber

Castaway · 14 April 2002Sue Lawley

Sir Roger Norrington

07°06′S 109°17′W

Sir Roger Norrington

How the Vienna Philharmonic apologised to Roger Norrington for their vibrato

Castaway · 15 August 1999Sue Lawley

15°45′S 107°27′W

Brian Keenan

Brian Keenan on driving his fellow hostage insane with his unmelodic singing

Castaway · 23 December 1990Sue Lawley

19°23′S 162°57′W

Sinead Cusack

How a row about Paradise Lost led Sinead Cusack to leave university

Castaway · 28 May 1983Roy Plomley

14°28′S 061°39′W

Benjamin Luxon

Benjamin Luxon on being called to tour Russia with the English Opera Group

Castaway · 27 January 1979Roy Plomley

Felicity Kendal

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Felicity Kendal

Felicity Kendal on being thrown on stage by her father aged nine

Castaway · 1 April 1978Roy Plomley