Tea — Luxury · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Tea — Luxury · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Luxury

Tea

10 episodes

Chosen over the decades

10

Total castaways

1950s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Angela Gheorghiu
Anna Neagle
Anna Raeburn
Elizabeth Seal
Henry Sandon
Isobel Baillie
Marie Burke
Mona Siddiqui
Patsy Rodenburg
Sir Terry Leahy

Sir Terry Leahy
Terry Leahy on being the class clown at school
Castaway · 3 February 2013Kirsty Young
Mona Siddiqui
Mona Siddiqui on dressing up as a bride and sitting silently for two hours in a school play
Castaway · 21 October 2012Kirsty Young
Patsy Rodenburg

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

Patsy Rodenburg on the teacher who tore up her Reader's Digest

Castaway · 4 March 2012Kirsty Young

Angela Gheorghiu

01°13′S 128°40′W

Angela Gheorghiu

Angela Gheorghiu on witnessing the fall of Ceaușescu

Castaway · 4 April 2004Sue Lawley

11°55′S 048°52′W

Henry Sandon

Henry Sandon on finding Ozzie the slipware owl on the Antiques Roadshow

Castaway · 11 March 2001Sue Lawley

01°56′S 059°18′W

Anna Raeburn

Anna Raeburn on expecting Laurence Olivier to discover her on her 17th birthday

Castaway · 27 May 1978Roy Plomley

23°26′S 065°12′W

Elizabeth Seal

Castaway · 20 October 1958Roy Plomley

18°49′S 093°13′W

Marie Burke

Castaway · 16 April 1956Roy Plomley

05°03′S 138°36′W

Isobel Baillie

Castaway · 2 August 1955Roy Plomley

03°24′S 024°49′W

Anna Neagle

Castaway · 26 March 1952Roy Plomley