Cigars — Luxury · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Cigars — Luxury · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Luxury

Cigars

11 episodes

Chosen over the decades

11

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Billy Russell
David Dimbleby
Fred Emney
George Cole
Ian Hunter
John Banham
John Browne
Lord Browne
Lord Delfont
Ralph Koltai
Sir Thomas Beecham

John Browne
Castaway · 2 July 2006Sue Lawley
Lord Browne
John Browne on a professor who thought his business ambition was funny
Castaway · 2 July 2006Sue Lawley
Ralph Koltai
How a badly painted sign led Ralph Koltai to art school

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

Castaway · 23 August 1998Sue Lawley

20°18′S 143°19′W

Lord Delfont

Bernard Delfont on turning down the Beatles

Castaway · 10 November 1991Sue Lawley

15°17′S 106°52′W

John Banham

John Banham on surviving a freak hurricane in the 1979 Fastnet race

Castaway · 15 September 1991Sue Lawley

07°00′S 007°12′W

George Cole

How shoveling coal made a man of George Cole

Castaway · 4 September 1976Roy Plomley

14°28′S 151°18′W

David Dimbleby

David Dimbleby on receiving letters that say his father would be ashamed of him

Castaway · 27 April 1974Roy Plomley

11°33′S 009°12′W

Billy Russell

How a precocious little brat got Billy Russell into show business

Castaway · 7 October 1968Roy Plomley

11°28′S 001°16′W

Ian Hunter

Castaway · 13 September 1965Roy Plomley

Sir Thomas Beecham

07°09′S 015°37′W

Sir Thomas Beecham

Thomas Beecham on his failed attempts to get himself into jail

Castaway · 23 December 1957Roy Plomley

06°35′S 152°21′W

Fred Emney

Castaway · 18 March 1952Roy Plomley