The Old Man and the Sea

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

The Old Man and the Sea — Book · desert is.land

Book

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2010s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Barry Hearn
How making up stories saved Barry Hearn's business in 1989
Castaway · 20 November 2022Lauren Laverne
Sabrina Cohen-Hatton
Sabrina Cohen-Hatton on eating out of a bin
Castaway · 29 September 2019Lauren Laverne
James Rebanks

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

How James Rebanks' dad told him to stop being a pain in the ass and go to Oxford

Castaway · 20 January 2019Lauren Laverne