Glenn Miller

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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

Glenn Miller — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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8 episodes

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Total castaways

1980s

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Castaways who chose this

Beryl Vertue
Geoffrey Smith
Gordon Beningfield
James Stewart
Jimmy Savile
Ted Allbeury
Virginia Holgate

Beryl Vertue
Beryl Vertue on playing cards with matches for money with Tony Hancock
Castaway · 20 January 2013Kirsty Young
Geoffrey Smith
Geoffrey Smith on deciding at 14 to never work inside
Castaway · 7 June 1998Sue Lawley
Virginia Holgate

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
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Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Virginia Holgate on her mother's ultimatum: eat or stop riding

Castaway · 10 August 1986Michael Parkinson

Jimmy Savile

07°08′S 158°44′W

Jimmy Savile

Jimmy Savile on bringing a hospital patient to Desert Island Discs

Castaway · 30 March 1985Roy Plomley

Gordon Beningfield

17°26′S 080°52′W

Gordon Beningfield

Gordon Beningfield on getting down on his hands and knees to see a butterfly's landscape

Castaway · 16 March 1985Roy Plomley

James Stewart

16°06′S 172°22′W

James Stewart

James Stewart on being told to leave engineering because of his maths

Castaway · 17 December 1983Roy Plomley

Ted Allbeury

05°47′S 081°43′W

Ted Allbeury

Ted Allbeury on describing a naked couple as 'a nurse attending the wounded' in an intelligence test

Castaway · 22 September 1979Roy Plomley

James Stewart

20°25′S 099°30′W

James Stewart

James Stewart on his disastrous debut as an accordion player

Castaway · 25 May 1974Roy Plomley