The Little Prince

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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The Little Prince — Book · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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8 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1960s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Dave Allen
Eva Bartok
Jacques Loussier
Kate Moss
Liz Carr
Marty Feldman
Nana Mouskouri
Omar Sharif

Liz Carr
Liz Carr on asking her mother every night if she would die
Castaway · 19 March 2023Lauren Laverne
Kate Moss
Kate Moss on testifying that Johnny Depp never kicked her down the stairs
Castaway · 24 July 2022Lauren Laverne
Nana Mouskouri

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

Nana Mouskouri on the blow-up with her professor over jazz

Castaway · 24 February 1979Roy Plomley

Omar Sharif

02°45′S 134°48′W

Omar Sharif

Omar Sharif on the photograph that won him his role in Lawrence of Arabia

Castaway · 14 January 1978Roy Plomley

Dave Allen

02°12′S 079°10′W

Dave Allen

Dave Allen on making a child disappear by moving two paces

Castaway · 12 July 1975Roy Plomley

Marty Feldman

22°53′S 018°20′W

Marty Feldman

Marty Feldman on firing arrows into a fake Red Indian's stomach

Castaway · 23 September 1968Roy Plomley

Jacques Loussier

12°56′S 082°11′W

Jacques Loussier

Jacques Loussier on leaving the Conservatoire because of twenty prize winners each year

Castaway · 25 November 1967Roy Plomley

Eva Bartok

15°19′S 023°41′W

Eva Bartok

Castaway · 10 June 1963Roy Plomley