Saxophone — Luxury · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Saxophone — Luxury · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Luxury

Saxophone

9 episodes

Chosen over the decades

9

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Annie Nightingale
Courtney Pine
David Hempleman Adams
Engelbert Humperdinck
Jacqueline de Rojas
Lord Victor Adebowale
Ronnie Scott
Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP
Stanley McMurtry

Annie Nightingale
Annie Nightingale on being told disc jockeys were husband substitutes
Castaway · 19 July 2020Lauren Laverne
Jacqueline de Rojas
Jacqueline de Rojas on being told we simply don't have women on the leadership team
Castaway · 24 March 2019Lauren Laverne

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

Lord Victor Adebowale

Victor Adebowale on the casual cruelty he observed as a street sweeper

Castaway · 30 October 2011Kirsty Young

Stanley McMurtry

20°26′S 005°21′W

Stanley McMurtry

How a little boy's Pokemon cards put Stanley McMurtry in his place

Castaway · 23 March 2008Kirsty Young

Engelbert Humperdinck

19°53′S 157°59′W

Engelbert Humperdinck

Engelbert Humperdinck on starting the sideburns against all advice

Castaway · 19 December 2004Sue Lawley

09°25′S 065°43′W

Courtney Pine

Courtney Pine on failing every O-level except music

Castaway · 27 May 2001Sue Lawley

David Hempleman Adams

16°53′S 100°43′W

David Hempleman Adams

David Hempleman Adams on using a Margaret Thatcher book as toilet paper

Castaway · 9 August 1998Sue Lawley

Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP

09°31′S 140°24′W

Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP

How rude remarks made Kenneth Clarke wear suede shoes defiantly

Castaway · 20 February 1994Sue Lawley

15°37′S 163°36′W

Ronnie Scott

How Ronnie Scott chose a saxophone over an inflatable Faye Dunaway doll

Castaway · 31 January 1976Roy Plomley