Tom Waits — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Tom Waits — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Composer

Tom Waits

9 episodes

Chosen over the decades

9

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

3

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

David Gilmour
Emma Thompson
Gavin Bryars
Graham Norton
John Sutherland
Oz Clarke
Raymond Briggs
Victoria Wood
William Gibson

Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson on her parents laughing at her snowflake ballet performance
Castaway · 28 March 2010Kirsty Young
Victoria Wood
Victoria Wood on her childhood home crammed with junk from bombsites
Castaway · 23 December 2007Kirsty Young
John Sutherland

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
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Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

John Sutherland on putting his nose in a book after his father's death

Castaway · 22 January 2006Sue Lawley

03°25′S 069°43′W

Raymond Briggs

How a shaken duster brought Raymond Briggs's parents together

Castaway · 20 March 2005Sue Lawley

05°51′S 093°08′W

Graham Norton

Graham Norton on Joan Collins’s phone call with a glove fetishist

Castaway · 2 May 2004Sue Lawley

13°36′S 062°49′W

David Gilmour

David Gilmour on ignoring his parents' advice to have something to fall back on

Castaway · 6 April 2003Sue Lawley

01°45′S 160°35′W

Oz Clarke

Oz Clarke on weeping at 13 because he didn't want to grow up

Castaway · 12 December 1999Sue Lawley

00°24′S 065°37′W

William Gibson

William Gibson on the Sony Walkman that inspired cyberspace

Castaway · 19 November 1999Sue Lawley

07°48′S 141°35′W

Gavin Bryars

Gavin Bryars on finding a tramp's recording that became Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

Castaway · 5 April 1998Sue Lawley