Cats — Andrew Lloyd Webber — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Cats — Andrew Lloyd Webber — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Song

Cats — Andrew Lloyd Webber

13 episodes

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Barbara Taylor Bradford
Beryl Reid
Dame Vera Lynn
Dr Jane Goodall
Gillian Lynne
Harry Rabinowitz
Isabel Allende
James Prior
Joseph Allen
Rosalind Plowright
Sir Malcolm Walker
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Sir Trevor Nunn

Sir Malcolm Walker
Malcolm Walker on his father's foot being crushed by a coal cutter
Castaway · 8 January 2023Lauren Laverne
Harry Rabinowitz
How Harry Rabinowitz signed the wrong contract and missed out on royalties
Castaway · 28 June 2015Kirsty Young
Sir Trevor Nunn

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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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

Trevor Nunn on the fragment about Grizabella that inspired the song Memory

Castaway · 26 January 2003Sue Lawley

Dr Jane Goodall

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Dr Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall on the moment a chimpanzee squeezed her hand

Castaway · 9 January 2000Sue Lawley

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Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende on her family playing the roles from The House of the Spirits

Castaway · 12 September 1993Sue Lawley

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Dame Vera Lynn

Vera Lynn on the Dutchman who hid in a hay rick to hear her banned broadcasts

Castaway · 3 September 1989Sue Lawley

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James Prior

How James Prior challenged the minister of food over his school pig club

Castaway · 11 January 1987Michael Parkinson

Barbara Taylor Bradford

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Barbara Taylor Bradford

Barbara Taylor Bradford on the dying friend who inspired her novel Voice of the Heart

Castaway · 27 April 1985Roy Plomley

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Joseph Allen

Joseph Allen on the one-second transition from three times his weight to zero in orbit

Castaway · 13 April 1985Roy Plomley

Rosalind Plowright

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Rosalind Plowright

Rosalind Plowright on hiding behind a character on the opera stage

Castaway · 5 May 1984Roy Plomley

Sir Ranulph Fiennes

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Sir Ranulph Fiennes

Ranulph Fiennes on the moment he saw the ship's masts after three years

Castaway · 29 October 1983Roy Plomley

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Beryl Reid

How dyslexia forced Beryl Reid to work twenty times harder

Castaway · 5 February 1983Roy Plomley

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Gillian Lynne

Gillian Lynne on deciding to sing as well as dance after seeing South Pacific

Castaway · 11 July 1981Roy Plomley