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desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Seeds — Luxury · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Luxury

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6 episodes

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6

Total castaways

1990s

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3

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Adelaide Hall
Alan Cumming
Hanif Kureishi
Lindsay Anderson
Sir Nicholas Henderson
Willard White

Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming on confronting his violent father with his brother
Castaway · 20 March 2022Lauren Laverne
Willard White
Willard White on saying Othello's first line fifty three different ways
Castaway · 7 November 1999Sue Lawley
Hanif Kureishi

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
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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

Hanif Kureishi on being racially insulted every day from age four to sixteen

Castaway · 21 April 1996Sue Lawley

06°43′S 081°03′W

Adelaide Hall

Adelaide Hall on accidentally inventing scat while humming to Ellington's 'Creole Love Call'

Castaway · 13 January 1991Sue Lawley

Sir Nicholas Henderson

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Sir Nicholas Henderson

Nicholas Henderson on a US senator's warning about Falklands casualties

Castaway · 28 May 1989Sue Lawley

Lindsay Anderson

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Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Anderson on writing 'I rebel about nothing in particular' on a looking glass aged nine

Castaway · 3 May 1980Roy Plomley