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“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

Drum kit — Luxury · desert is.land

Luxury

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ebony Rainford-Brent on the day police came to say her brother was in intensive care
Castaway · 8 December 2024Lauren Laverne
Alfie Boe
Alfie Boe on holding his father as he died
Castaway · 5 June 2011Kirsty Young

desert is.land

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

The listing

Transmission

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

Michael Mansfield on having his car blown up outside the Old Bailey

Castaway · 17 October 2010Kirsty Young

01°39′S 122°46′W

Timothy Spall on his drama teacher's extraordinary praise after playing the lion in The Wizard of Oz

Castaway · 22 September 2002Sue Lawley

19°20′S 151°05′W

Des Lynam on not recognising his father when he picked him up as a child

Castaway · 19 November 2000Sue Lawley