Jeremiah Clarke — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Jeremiah Clarke — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Composer

Jeremiah Clarke

8 episodes

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8

Total castaways

1990s

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5

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Anthony Andrews
Baroness Floella Benjamin
Dick Francis
Dr Catherine Gavin
Lady Margaret Tebbit
Lord King
Miss Read
Sir Antony Beevor

Baroness Floella Benjamin
Floella Benjamin on the audition where her wig flew off
Castaway · 11 October 2020Lauren Laverne
Sir Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor on collapsing in tears in his editor's office
Castaway · 19 February 2017Kirsty Young

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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Find a castaway
Most requested
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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

Dick Francis on the heartbreaking collapse of Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National

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Lady Margaret Tebbit

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Lady Margaret Tebbit

Margaret Tebbit on kicking her husband

Castaway · 31 December 1995Sue Lawley

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Lord King

Lord King on cutting 23,000 jobs at British Airways

Castaway · 14 April 1991Sue Lawley

Anthony Andrews

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Anthony Andrews

Anthony Andrews on his only memory of his father coming home with a drum

Castaway · 5 April 1987Michael Parkinson

Dr Catherine Gavin

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Dr Catherine Gavin

Catherine Gavin on the grenadier guards saluting de Gaulle in liberated Paris

Castaway · 24 June 1978Roy Plomley

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Miss Read

Miss Read on her father’s horror at her Fleet Street plans

Castaway · 2 July 1977Roy Plomley