Jerry Bock

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

Jerry Bock — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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8 episodes

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2010s

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Anne Reid
Edward Heath
George Clooney
Maggie Fitzgibbon
Most Rev Rt Hon Stuart Blanch
Sir Michael Marmot
Sonia Friedman
Tom Lehrer

Sonia Friedman
Sonia Friedman on writing a Harold Pinter pause into the prompt script
Castaway · 4 June 2017Kirsty Young
Anne Reid
Anne Reid on crying in the hedge while caring for her family
Castaway · 13 July 2014Kirsty 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
Report a fault

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

Sir Michael Marmot

How a bottle of white mixture led Michael Marmot to question medicine

Castaway · 6 July 2014Kirsty Young

George Clooney

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George Clooney

George Clooney on dressing as a leprechaun with a cigar on his dad's show

Castaway · 23 February 2003Sue Lawley

Edward Heath

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Edward Heath

Edward Heath on his father's dying wish for a respectable occupation

Castaway · 18 December 1988Michael Parkinson

Tom Lehrer

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Tom Lehrer

Tom Lehrer on his parents finding him a popular music teacher

Castaway · 12 July 1980Roy Plomley

Most Rev Rt Hon Stuart Blanch

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Most Rev Rt Hon Stuart Blanch

Stuart Blanch on being accepted at the first Church of England selection conference in Calcutta

Castaway · 3 July 1976Roy Plomley

Maggie Fitzgibbon

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Maggie Fitzgibbon

Maggie Fitzgibbon on being discovered while singing under the shower

Castaway · 27 January 1969Roy Plomley

Sonia Friedman

Anne Reid

George Clooney

Edward Heath

Tom Lehrer

Most Rev Rt Hon Stuart Blanch

Maggie Fitzgibbon