Bobbie Gentry

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

Composer

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler on his sister turning his tennis racket guitar the right way
Castaway · 4 August 2024Lauren Laverne
Paul Abbott
Paul Abbott on knocking on his mother's door and discovering he'd been swapped
Castaway · 11 February 2007Kirsty Young

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

Jonathan Miller on his father asking him at 40 what he wants to be

Castaway · 23 January 2005Sue Lawley

11°09′S 030°26′W

Ed McBain on using a typewriter with only capital letters in the Navy

Castaway · 23 June 1979Roy Plomley

Bobbie Gentry — Composer · desert is.land