Michelangelo's sculpture — Luxury · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Michelangelo's sculpture — Luxury · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Luxury

Michelangelo's sculpture

9 episodes

Chosen over the decades

9

Total castaways

1960s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Bernard Cribbins
Brian Sewell
David Kossoff
Dr Christiaan Barnard
Glynis Johns
Gyles Brandreth
Honor Blackman
Josephine Barstow
Sara Leighton

Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth on applying to become an MP the day his youngest daughter became a teenager
Castaway · 9 January 2011Kirsty Young
Brian Sewell
Brian Sewell on Paul Nash teaching him to see a whole landscape in a rock
Castaway · 19 June 1994Sue Lawley

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

Josephine Barstow

Josephine Barstow on the morning she decided to become an opera singer

Castaway · 13 October 1979Roy Plomley

08°31′S 095°26′W

Glynis Johns

Glynis Johns on making her first stage appearance at a few days old

Castaway · 24 April 1976Roy Plomley

Dr Christiaan Barnard

17°32′S 122°50′W

Dr Christiaan Barnard

Christiaan Barnard on the loneliness after his first transplant patient died

Castaway · 17 April 1976Roy Plomley

13°42′S 006°26′W

Sara Leighton

Castaway · 28 March 1966Roy Plomley

10°43′S 156°34′W

Honor Blackman

Castaway · 16 November 1964Roy Plomley

12°44′S 137°29′W

David Kossoff

Castaway · 11 May 1964Roy Plomley

Bernard Cribbins

00°04′S 041°16′W

Bernard Cribbins

Castaway · 7 October 1963Roy Plomley