Are You Lonesome Tonight? — Elvis Presley — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Are You Lonesome Tonight? — Elvis Presley — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Are You Lonesome Tonight? — Elvis Presley

6 episodes

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Alan Bleasdale
Edna O'Brien
Mark Strong
Patricia Cornwell
Shirley Anne Field
Willard White

Mark Strong
How three chords in a magazine led Mark Strong to start a band
Castaway · 7 March 2021Lauren Laverne
Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell on grabbing her father's leg as he left on Christmas Day
Castaway · 29 December 2002Sue Lawley
Willard White

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

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Alan Bleasdale on writing in a converted toilet with his dad's cement mixer outside

Castaway · 25 August 1991Sue Lawley

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Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien on learning to cook by making suppositories in a pharmacy

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