Gregorio Allegri — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Gregorio Allegri — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Gregorio Allegri

14 episodes

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14

Total castaways

1980s

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5

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Alan Keith
Ann Leslie
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Geoffrey Moorhouse
Helena Kennedy QC
Hugh Johnson
Kaffe Fassett
Leo McKern
Professor Glyn Daniel
Rowan Atkinson
Sir Anthony Seldon
Sir David Willcocks
Sir Terence Conran
Sister Frances Dominica

Sir Anthony Seldon
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Sister Paul reading his work aloud at age 11
Castaway · 21 March 2010Kirsty Young

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

Ann Leslie on deciding not to die in hospital for her family's sake

Castaway · 7 November 2004Sue Lawley

Sister Frances Dominica

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Sister Frances Dominica

Frances Dominica on the split-second she knew she had to become a nun

Castaway · 8 February 2004Sue Lawley

Sir David Willcocks

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Sir David Willcocks

David Willcocks on being conducted by Elgar as a ten-year-old choir boy

Castaway · 17 May 1998Sue Lawley

Helena Kennedy QC

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Helena Kennedy QC

Helena Kennedy on having her mini skirt questioned at Gray's Inn

Castaway · 25 January 1998Sue Lawley

Sir Terence Conran

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Sir Terence Conran

How a grocery queue helped Terence Conran accept a knighthood

Castaway · 1 September 1996Sue Lawley

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Kaffe Fassett

How a fellow passenger taught Kaffe Fassett to knit on a train

Castaway · 1 July 1990Sue Lawley

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Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Atkinson on improvising in front of a mirror to create his first characters

Castaway · 15 May 1988Michael Parkinson

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Hugh Johnson

How not finding a book about trees led Hugh Johnson to write one

Castaway · 12 May 1984Roy Plomley

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Leo McKern

Leo McKern on receiving the Rumpole script out of the blue

Castaway · 28 April 1984Roy Plomley

Geoffrey Moorhouse

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Geoffrey Moorhouse

Geoffrey Moorhouse on the baby who survived a five-floor chimney fall

Castaway · 16 April 1983Roy Plomley

Professor Glyn Daniel

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Professor Glyn Daniel

Glyn Daniel on visiting every megalithic monument in southern Britain

Castaway · 7 November 1981Roy Plomley

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Alan Keith

Alan Keith on playing truant from school to go to the theatre

Castaway · 6 February 1971Roy Plomley