Jimmy McHugh — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Jimmy McHugh — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Composer

Jimmy McHugh

11 episodes

Chosen over the decades

11

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Brenda Blethyn
Frank McCourt
Howard Jacobson
Julian Symons
Kingsley Amis
Richard Briers
Robert Harris
Rt Hon Barbara Castle
Sian Phillips
Tom Keating
Tony Bennett

Howard Jacobson
How crippling shyness haunted Howard Jacobson until Cambridge
Castaway · 6 February 2011Kirsty Young
Robert Harris
Robert Harris on politics being his father's football
Castaway · 28 November 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

How amateur dramatics led Brenda Blethyn's husband to fall for the lady opposite

Castaway · 18 September 2005Sue Lawley

19°50′S 164°06′W

Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt on writing his earliest memory in the present tense

Castaway · 17 June 2001Sue Lawley

15°42′S 006°37′W

Richard Briers

Richard Briers on being fired from amateur dramatics at 14 for speaking too fast

Castaway · 17 December 2000Sue Lawley

10°09′S 049°20′W

Sian Phillips

Sian Phillips on seeing her first pantomime with her grandmother

Castaway · 25 May 1997Sue Lawley

Rt Hon Barbara Castle

20°35′S 170°53′W

Rt Hon Barbara Castle

Barbara Castle on her mother’s feeding kitchen for miners’ children during the 1920s lockout

Castaway · 11 November 1990Sue Lawley

14°07′S 049°31′W

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett on his first job as a singing waiter at 16

Castaway · 4 January 1987Michael Parkinson

17°03′S 135°26′W

Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis on his youthful plan to be a poet, not a novelist

Castaway · 9 November 1986Michael Parkinson

01°30′S 050°57′W

Tom Keating

Tom Keating on being caught reading Das Kapital in the Navy

Castaway · 26 February 1983Roy Plomley

10°39′S 118°02′W

Julian Symons

Julian Symons on being unable to find Middle C after seven years of piano lessons

Castaway · 15 May 1982Roy Plomley