Richard Wagner — 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

Richard Wagner

154 episodes

Chosen over the decades

152

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

8

Decades seen

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Agnes Nicholls
Alfred Brendel
Andrea Newman
Andrew Cruickshank
Antonia Fraser
Arnold Ridley
A S Byatt
Ben Travers
Bernard Levin
Beverly Sills
Blanche Marvin
Bob Worcester
Bransby Williams
Brian Sewell
Carlo Curley
Cate Blanchett
Charles Groves
Christopher Lee
Claudio Abbado
Colin Dexter
Colin Wilson
Conrad Black
Dame Gladys Cooper
Dame Glenys Stacey
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Lotte Lehmann
Lotte Lehmann on being frightened to death of Toscanini
Castaway · 22 June 1959Roy Plomley
Agnes Nicholls
Agnes Nicholls on singing before Queen Victoria at her Diamond Jubilee
Castaway · 19 May 1958Roy Plomley
Bransby Williams

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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

Bransby Williams on dressing among seals and sea lions at his first theatre job

Castaway · 4 November 1957Roy Plomley

Margaret Lockwood

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Margaret Lockwood

Margaret Lockwood on forgetting her harness flying as Peter Pan

Castaway · 25 April 1951Roy Plomley