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desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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

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

Camera — Luxury · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Luxury

Camera

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

5

Total castaways

1960s

Peak decade

3

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Alfred Eisenstadt
Frank Chacksfield
Gordon Harker
Harry Mortimer
Jorge Bolet

Jorge Bolet
How Jorge Bolet's Carnegie Hall debut audience included Rachmaninoff, Horowitz and Heifetz
Castaway · 2 March 1985Roy Plomley
Alfred Eisenstadt
Alfred Eisenstadt on being hoisted 142 feet into a rainforest tree to photograph from a platform
Castaway · 22 September 1984Roy Plomley

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

Frank Chacksfield

Castaway · 19 February 1962Roy Plomley

10°36′S 141°19′W

Harry Mortimer

Castaway · 19 December 1960Roy Plomley

12°40′S 133°52′W

Gordon Harker

Castaway · 5 December 1952Roy Plomley