Sergei Prokofiev — 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

Sergei Prokofiev

58 episodes

Chosen over the decades

57

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

7

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Alfred Eisenstadt
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Antonio Carluccio
Barry Norman
Barry Tuckwell
Brian Glover
Carlo Curley
Charles Aznavour
Clare Francis
C P Snow
Dame Harriet Walter
Darcey Bussell
Denise Robertson
Desmond Morris
Dr Max Perutz
Egon Ronay
Gillian Lynne
John Lill
John Piper
Joseph Szigeti
Judith Kerr
Julia Cleverdon
Julian Critchley
Julie Andrews
more

Barry Tuckwell
How Barry Tuckwell joined the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as third horn at 15
Castaway · 5 February 1977Roy Plomley
Michael Holroyd
Michael Holroyd on arguing so persuasively his father told him to profit from it
Castaway · 22 January 1977Roy Plomley

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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

Sherrill Milnes

Sherrill Milnes on building something substantial to escape a desert island

Castaway · 10 January 1976Roy Plomley

19°38′S 028°47′W

C P Snow

C P Snow on conceiving his novel series at 8.30pm on 1 January 1935

Castaway · 2 August 1975Roy Plomley

Lieutenant Colonel C H Jaeger

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Lieutenant Colonel C H Jaeger

C H Jaeger on playing the trumpets at the 1937 coronation

Castaway · 18 November 1968Roy Plomley

Sir Francis McLean

07°55′S 044°44′W

Sir Francis McLean

Francis McLean on entering Paris on the day it was liberated

Castaway · 12 August 1968Roy Plomley

12°48′S 119°25′W

Joseph Szigeti

How Joseph Szigeti escaped the plane crash that killed Carole Lombard

Castaway · 31 May 1965Roy Plomley

07°54′S 134°14′W

Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin

Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin on both saying snap to the same joke

Castaway · 12 December 1955Roy Plomley