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desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Mirror — Luxury · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Luxury

8 episodes

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1960s

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Castaways who chose this

Don McCullin
Graham Norton
Hughie Green
Marjorie Proops
Russell Harty
Simon Cowell
Sir Terry Frost
Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam
How Terry Gilliam's jokes about God ended his missionary ambitions
Castaway · 10 April 2011Kirsty Young
Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell on his Eureka moment at 40 for judging hits
Castaway · 13 August 2006Sue 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

Graham Norton

Graham Norton on Joan Collins’s phone call with a glove fetishist

Castaway · 2 May 2004Sue Lawley

Sir Terry Frost

05°29′S 159°51′W

Sir Terry Frost

Terry Frost on trading caricatures for goods in a POW camp

Castaway · 19 April 1998Sue Lawley

Don McCullin

04°16′S 128°45′W

Don McCullin

How a dying child's hand in Biafra destroyed Don McCullin

Castaway · 10 March 1984Roy Plomley

Russell Harty

08°55′S 138°00′W

Russell Harty

Russell Harty on turning down a Granada job for teaching

Castaway · 21 March 1981Roy Plomley

Marjorie Proops

04°18′S 109°21′W

Marjorie Proops

Castaway · 22 April 1963Roy Plomley

Hughie Green

01°53′S 115°45′W

Hughie Green

Castaway · 8 January 1962Roy Plomley

Terry Gilliam

Simon Cowell

Sir Terry Frost

Don McCullin

Russell Harty

Marjorie Proops

Hughie Green