The Diary of a Nobody — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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The Diary of a Nobody — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Book

The Diary of a Nobody

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

5

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

3

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Christina Foyle
Dame Fanny Waterman
Jilly Cooper
Michael Heath
Tony Britton

Michael Heath
Michael Heath on climbing through barbed wire to sit on a bomb-strewn beach as a wartime evacuee
Castaway · 7 August 2016Kirsty Young
Dame Fanny Waterman
Fanny Waterman on sharing a toilet with five neighbours
Castaway · 4 July 2010Kirsty Young

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
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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

How Jilly Cooper lost 50,000 words of a novel on a bus

Castaway · 8 March 1975Roy Plomley

05°57′S 086°09′W

Tony Britton

Tony Britton on being saved from the sack by a part in The Firstborn

Castaway · 6 January 1973Roy Plomley

Christina Foyle

07°09′S 131°03′W

Christina Foyle

Castaway · 30 April 1962Roy Plomley