Johnny Green — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Johnny Green — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Composer

Johnny Green

8 episodes

Chosen over the decades

8

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Alan Price
Brian Redhead
Charlie Watts
Dizzy Gillespie
Michael White
Professor Stuart Hall
Richard Condon
Stephane Grappelli

Charlie Watts
Charlie Watts on drawing every hotel bed he sleeps in on tour
Castaway · 25 February 2001Sue Lawley
Professor Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall on watching his father being patronised in colonial Jamaica
Castaway · 13 February 2000Sue Lawley

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

Michael White on why we never saw his show 'I'

Castaway · 26 May 1996Sue Lawley

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Richard Condon

How writing the first letter of each word cured Richard Condon's stutter

Castaway · 28 September 1986Michael Parkinson

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Brian Redhead

Brian Redhead on vowing to be a journalist after reading about Scoop Mallory

Castaway · 6 July 1986Michael Parkinson

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Alan Price

Alan Price on the Animals' name coming from a squatter called Animal Hogg

Castaway · 4 December 1982Roy Plomley

Dizzy Gillespie

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Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie on receiving a trombone from his school at age 11

Castaway · 19 January 1980Roy Plomley

Stephane Grappelli

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Stephane Grappelli

How Stephane Grappelli taught Django Reinhardt to sign his name

Castaway · 12 August 1972Roy Plomley