Joe Zawinul

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

Joe Zawinul — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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6 episodes

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Total castaways

1970s

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Anna Raeburn
Hanif Kureishi
Karl Jenkins
Marti Caine
Petula Clark
Victoria Wood

Victoria Wood
Victoria Wood on her childhood home crammed with junk from bombsites
Castaway · 23 December 2007Kirsty Young
Karl Jenkins
Karl Jenkins on returning to Wales for his father's funeral
Castaway · 10 December 2006Kirsty 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

Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi on being racially insulted every day from age four to sixteen

Castaway · 21 April 1996Sue Lawley

Petula Clark

20°24′S 140°34′W

Petula Clark

Petula Clark on coming close to a nervous breakdown as a teenager

Castaway · 24 December 1995Sue Lawley

Marti Caine

06°09′S 146°17′W

Marti Caine

Marti Caine on stealing a penny from under a milk bottle

Castaway · 10 November 1979Roy Plomley

Anna Raeburn

01°56′S 059°18′W

Anna Raeburn

Anna Raeburn on expecting Laurence Olivier to discover her on her 17th birthday

Castaway · 27 May 1978Roy Plomley

Victoria Wood

Karl Jenkins

Petula Clark

Marti Caine

Anna Raeburn