The Rattle Bag

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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 Rattle Bag — Book · desert is.land

Book

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Eliza Manningham-Buller
Eliza Manningham-Buller on the lift ride when she wondered which colleague was a traitor
Castaway · 18 November 2007Kirsty Young
Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo on first seeing his father as a convict in Great Expectations
Castaway · 11 April 2004Sue Lawley

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

Fay Godwin on her mother's death on her 17th birthday

Castaway · 17 March 2002Sue Lawley

09°13′S 165°20′W

Chris Patten on predicting to John Major that he would lose his seat in Bath

Castaway · 3 November 1996Sue Lawley