Edvard Grieg — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Broadcasting since 1942
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

desert is.landest. 1942

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Composer

Edvard Grieg

35 episodes

Chosen over the decades

35

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

8

Decades seen

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Alvar Lidell
Arthur Askey
Arthur C Clarke
Arthur English
Dame Daphne Du Maurier
Dame Stephanie Shirley
Derek Tangye
Douglas Reeman
Elisabeth Soderstrom
Elspeth Huxley
Emlyn Williams
Frances Perry
Inga Beale
Isidore Godfrey
James Herbert
Jean Plaidy
Joan Fontaine
Kirsten Flagstad
Lavinia Young
Lord Bernard Miles
Lord King
Mary Midgley
Michael Croft
Nigel Kennedy
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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

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

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Arthur English

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Douglas Reeman

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Lord Bernard Miles

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Elspeth Huxley

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Arthur Askey

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Derek Tangye

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Ronald Lockley

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Frances Perry

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Elisabeth Soderstrom

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Joan Fontaine

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Spike Milligan

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Michael Croft

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Dame Daphne Du Maurier

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Dame Daphne Du Maurier

Castaway · 3 September 1977Roy Plomley

Arthur C Clarke

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Arthur C Clarke

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Emlyn Williams

Castaway · 15 February 1975Roy Plomley

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Jean Plaidy

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Isidore Godfrey

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Alvar Lidell

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Arthur Askey

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Lavinia Young

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Kirsten Flagstad

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Edvard Grieg — Composer · desert is.land