Lionel Richie

Tuning in…

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

The listing

Transmission

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

Composer

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Bryn Terfel
How leaving Wales left Bryn Terfel crying every night for six weeks
Castaway · 21 September 2003Sue Lawley
Joan Collins
Joan Collins on fingerprinting her family as a wannabe detective
Castaway · 25 June 1989Sue Lawley
Virginia Holgate

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

The listing

Transmission

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

Virginia Holgate on her mother's ultimatum: eat or stop riding

Castaway · 10 August 1986Michael Parkinson

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Trevor Brooking on being forced to practise with only his weaker foot as a child

Castaway · 2 January 1982Roy Plomley

Lionel Richie — Composer · desert is.land