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desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Wine — Luxury · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Luxury

Wine

19 episodes

Chosen over the decades

19

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

6

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Anthony Powell
Arthur Lowe
Barbara Pym
Cecil Day Lewis
Charles Mackerras
Dame Moura Lympany
Daniel Massey
David Davis MP
Donald Sutherland
Harry Brittain
Jacquetta Hawkes
John Eliot Gardiner
Lord Roy Jenkins
Mel Brooks
Michael Deeley
Professor L Dudley
Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Simon Rattle
Sir Michael Balcon

Michael Deeley
Michael Deeley on the secret exhilaration of surviving a shooting in Malaya
Castaway · 14 December 2008Kirsty Young
David Davis MP
David Davis on his stepfather making him face five bullies at age six
Castaway · 16 November 2008Kirsty Young
Donald Sutherland

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
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

How being called 'You with the big ears' got Donald Sutherland his first speaking role in The Dirty Dozen

Castaway · 18 June 2000Sue Lawley

John Eliot Gardiner

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John Eliot Gardiner

John Eliot Gardiner on his zany pilgrimage route from Samarkand to Seville

Castaway · 22 November 1992Sue Lawley

Lord Roy Jenkins

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Lord Roy Jenkins

Roy Jenkins on teaching himself to be a writer

Castaway · 16 April 1989Sue Lawley

Robin Hanbury-Tenison

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Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Robin Hanbury-Tenison on spending three months alone in a small boat in the rainforest

Castaway · 24 November 1984Roy Plomley

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Daniel Massey

Daniel Massey on never passing an audition

Castaway · 7 March 1981Roy Plomley

Jacquetta Hawkes

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Jacquetta Hawkes

Jacquetta Hawkes on drawing bison and mammoth in a cave as a child

Castaway · 15 November 1980Roy Plomley

Dame Moura Lympany

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Dame Moura Lympany

Moura Lympany on saying 'Couldn't I play?' to get her debut

Castaway · 28 July 1979Roy Plomley

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Simon Rattle

Simon Rattle on the terrifying moment before his first rehearsal with an orchestra

Castaway · 5 August 1978Roy Plomley

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Barbara Pym

Barbara Pym on 16 years of publisher rejection

Castaway · 29 July 1978Roy Plomley

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Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks on selling the wine Alfred Hitchcock sent him

Castaway · 1 July 1978Roy Plomley

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Anthony Powell

Anthony Powell on cleaning ink pots in a publisher's office where convicts were better treated

Castaway · 16 October 1976Roy Plomley

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Arthur Lowe

How staging a play in the Sinai Desert launched Arthur Lowe's theatre career

Castaway · 12 December 1970Roy Plomley

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Harry Brittain

Castaway · 2 November 1964Roy Plomley

Professor L Dudley

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Professor L Dudley

Castaway · 6 May 1963Roy Plomley

Sir Michael Balcon

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Sir Michael Balcon

Castaway · 11 December 1961Roy Plomley

Cecil Day Lewis

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Cecil Day Lewis

Castaway · 18 July 1960Roy Plomley

Charles Mackerras

20°32′S 178°16′W

Charles Mackerras

Charles Mackerras on why he'd be an utterly ghastly castaway

Castaway · 24 August 1959Roy Plomley