Alexander Borodin — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Alexander Borodin — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Composer

Alexander Borodin

14 episodes

Chosen over the decades

13

Total castaways

1960s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Anthony Powell
Arthur Askey
Bill Simpson
Brian Aldiss
David Bailey
Kyra Vayne
Lady Margaret Tebbit
Sir Adrian Boult
Sir Arthur Bliss
Sir Ian MacGregor
Sir Paul Dukes
Stanley Holloway

Brian Aldiss
Brian Aldiss on his mother's pretence that her stillborn baby had lived
Castaway · 28 January 2007Kirsty Young
Kyra Vayne
Kyra Vayne on eating potato peels and rotten fish bones to survive the Russian Revolution
Castaway · 24 March 1996Sue Lawley

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
Report a fault

Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Lady Margaret Tebbit

Margaret Tebbit on kicking her husband

Castaway · 31 December 1995Sue Lawley

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David Bailey

David Bailey on falling in love with Jean Shrimpton the moment he saw her

Castaway · 29 September 1991Sue Lawley

Sir Ian MacGregor

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Sir Ian MacGregor

How a tank-building mission took Ian MacGregor from Glasgow to America

Castaway · 5 October 1986Michael Parkinson

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Brian Aldiss

Brian Aldiss on competing to tell stories after lights out in the dormitory

Castaway · 17 April 1982Roy Plomley

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Anthony Powell

Anthony Powell on cleaning ink pots in a publisher's office where convicts were better treated

Castaway · 16 October 1976Roy Plomley

Stanley Holloway

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Stanley Holloway

Stanley Holloway on his first job taking his boss's head to be ironed

Castaway · 25 October 1975Roy Plomley

Sir Arthur Bliss

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Sir Arthur Bliss

Arthur Bliss on calling his wife to hammer a nail

Castaway · 29 July 1972Roy Plomley

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Arthur Askey

How thin walls helped Arthur Askey learn the piano

Castaway · 23 December 1968Roy Plomley

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Bill Simpson

Bill Simpson on cycling home at 2am to milk 60 cows after a country dance

Castaway · 30 May 1966Roy Plomley

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Sir Paul Dukes

Paul Dukes on starting life over again at seventy

Castaway · 22 February 1965Roy Plomley

Sir Adrian Boult

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Sir Adrian Boult

Adrian Boult on conducting Borodine's second symphony by hurricane lamps

Castaway · 28 March 1960Roy Plomley

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Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin

Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin on both saying snap to the same joke

Castaway · 12 December 1955Roy Plomley