Cricket — Luxury · desert is.land

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

Cricket — Luxury · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Luxury

Cricket

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

5

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Barry Norman
Gary Lineker
Harold Hobson
Sir Learie Constantine
Tim Rice

Gary Lineker
Gary Lineker on using household lamps to play football in the winter dark
Castaway · 30 September 1990Sue Lawley
Barry Norman
Barry Norman on being hurled into a racial maelstrom as a 19-year-old journalist
Castaway · 25 August 1979Roy 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

Tim Rice on his first success Joseph starting as a ten-minute prep school concert

Castaway · 21 February 1976Roy Plomley

Sir Learie Constantine

22°30′S 035°44′W

Sir Learie Constantine

Castaway · 4 February 1963Roy Plomley

02°37′S 066°42′W

Harold Hobson

Castaway · 1 July 1957Roy Plomley