All You Need Is Love — The Beatles — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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All You Need Is Love — The Beatles — Song · desert is.land

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All You Need Is Love — The Beatles

7 episodes

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George Foreman
Jackie Stewart
Jilly Cooper
Julia Samuel
Penelope Keith
Rt Hon Michael Howard MP
Wayne Sleep

Julia Samuel
Julia Samuel on not knowing babies could die until she chaired Birthright
Castaway · 1 March 2015Kirsty Young
Rt Hon Michael Howard MP
Michael Howard on his aunt surviving three trips to the Auschwitz gas chamber
Castaway · 4 July 2004Sue Lawley
George Foreman

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

George Foreman on hoping Joe Frazier wouldn't see his knees shaking

Castaway · 5 January 2003Sue Lawley

02°17′S 166°28′W

Jackie Stewart

Jackie Stewart on learning about timing from a deer stalker on Loch Lomond

Castaway · 22 June 1986Michael Parkinson

09°40′S 062°08′W

Wayne Sleep

Wayne Sleep on his mother turning down a BBC singing contract

Castaway · 29 October 1977Roy Plomley

09°19′S 169°56′W

Penelope Keith

Penelope Keith on the sewing machine needle that ended her piano playing

Castaway · 21 August 1976Roy Plomley

05°17′S 158°22′W

Jilly Cooper

How Jilly Cooper lost 50,000 words of a novel on a bus

Castaway · 8 March 1975Roy Plomley