Keith Jarrett — Composer · desert is.land

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

desert is.landest. 1942

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Composer

Keith Jarrett

6 episodes

Chosen over the decades

6

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Bernardine Evaristo
Jonathan Pryce
Rachel Whiteread
Sir Alec Broers
Sir Terence Conran
Tom Stoppard

Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo on crossing the road to avoid her father aged 11
Castaway · 20 September 2020Lauren Laverne
Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread on snipers on all the rooftops at her Holocaust Memorial unveiling
Castaway · 26 February 2006Sue 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
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 Alec Broers

Alec Broers on being thought lonely at university for enjoying ice skating and music

Castaway · 1 April 2001Sue Lawley

Sir Terence Conran

13°13′S 154°17′W

Sir Terence Conran

How a grocery queue helped Terence Conran accept a knighthood

Castaway · 1 September 1996Sue Lawley

21°38′S 043°25′W

Jonathan Pryce

Jonathan Pryce on being stopped in the corridor at RADA

Castaway · 20 May 1990Sue Lawley

21°26′S 069°49′W

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard on playing the triangle in Darjeeling in 1944

Castaway · 12 January 1985Roy Plomley

Keith Jarrett — Composer · desert is.land