Jacques Brel — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Jacques Brel — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Composer

Jacques Brel

11 episodes

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2010s

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4

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Alison Moyet
Camila Batmanghelidjh
Christiane Amanpour
Les Murray
Matt Lucas
Mike Harding
Nicole Farhi
Philippe Petit
Professor Peter Piot
Prue Leith

Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour on asking Slobodan Milosevic how he could sleep at night
Castaway · 2 October 2016Kirsty Young
Nicole Farhi
Nicole Farhi on sculpting a head of Thomas Gainsborough for Gainsborough House
Castaway · 10 July 2016Kirsty 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
Browse the archive
About

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

Professor Peter Piot

Peter Piot on explaining to nuns that their needles spread disease

Castaway · 25 January 2015Kirsty Young

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Alison Moyet

Alison Moyet on taking a hammer to her gold discs

Castaway · 18 May 2014Kirsty Young

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Matt Lucas

Matt Lucas on waking up to find his hair on the pillow aged six

Castaway · 26 November 2006Kirsty Young

Camila Batmanghelidjh

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Camila Batmanghelidjh

How a 13-year-old drug runner brought his younger siblings to Camila Batmanghelidjh

Castaway · 22 October 2006Kirsty Young

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Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit on tearing a magazine page in a dentist's waiting room

Castaway · 10 April 2005Sue Lawley

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Les Murray

Les Murray on digging depression out of himself with a pen

Castaway · 16 August 1998Sue Lawley

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Prue Leith

Prue Leith on catering from a bedsitter with lobsters on the dressing table

Castaway · 6 May 1990Sue Lawley

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Albert & Michel Roux

How a wise old man's advice led Albert and Michel Roux to pastry

Castaway · 26 October 1986Michael Parkinson

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Mike Harding

Mike Harding on advising John Lennon to get better suits

Castaway · 23 October 1982Roy Plomley