Hot water bottle

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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

Hot water bottle — Luxury · desert is.land

Luxury

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1950s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Heidi Thomas
Heidi Thomas on discovering her father's letters after his suicide
Castaway · 15 December 2019Lauren Laverne
Cath Kidston
Cath Kidston on turning a laurel bush into a shop as a child
Castaway · 24 April 2011Kirsty Young
Jan Morris

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

Jan Morris on the Arabic music drifting through her Casablanca clinic window

Castaway · 16 June 2002Sue Lawley

03°54′S 097°40′W

Castaway · 4 May 1959Roy Plomley

00°27′S 087°23′W

Castaway · 29 October 1956Roy Plomley