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

Jigsaw puzzle — Luxury · desert is.land

Luxury

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2010s

Peak decade

Decades seen

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Colonel Lucy Giles
Lucy Giles on an 18-hour logistic convoy through the snow in Bosnia
Castaway · 27 December 2020Lauren Laverne
Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux on the freedom of filming with a gun nut on a hillside in Idaho
Castaway · 12 May 2019Lauren Laverne
Julia Cleverdon

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

Julia Cleverdon on her father locking Dylan Thomas in a library to finish Under Milk Wood

Castaway · 18 January 2015Kirsty Young

12°52′S 052°23′W

How a broken briefcase led Thomas Keneally to the story of Schindler

Castaway · 26 November 1983Roy Plomley

11°35′S 058°17′W

How the musical Breakfast at Tiffany's flopped disastrously for Richard Chamberlain

Castaway · 14 March 1970Roy Plomley