Sir Hubert Parry — 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

Sir Hubert Parry

48 episodes

Chosen over the decades

48

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

7

Decades seen

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Alan Keith
Alan Titchmarsh
Andrea Levy
Anya Hindmarch
Ara Darzi
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Baroness Hale of Richmond
Bishop John Sentamu
Clarissa Dickson Wright
Countess Elizabeth Longford
Dame Josephine Barnes
David Croft
Eva Burrows
Felicity Lott
Frankie Howerd
Gurinder Chadha
Gyles Brandreth
Jack Rosenthal
James Bowman
Judi Dench
Katharine Hamnett
Kevin Sinfield
Lieutenant Colonel C H Jaeger
Lord Joffe
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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

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Lieutenant Colonel C H Jaeger

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Sir Hubert Parry — Composer · desert is.land