Hear My Prayer — Felix Mendelssohn — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Hear My Prayer — Felix Mendelssohn — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Song

Hear My Prayer — Felix Mendelssohn

8 episodes

Castaways who chose this

Christabel Bielenberg
Commissioner Catherine Bramwell-Booth
Dame Sibyl Hathaway
Lieutenant Colonel C H Jaeger
Merle Park
Rosemary Verey
Rosina Harrison
Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

Rosemary Verey
Rosemary Verey on hoping her late husband could still enjoy her garden
Castaway · 13 February 1994Sue Lawley
Christabel Bielenberg
Christabel Bielenberg on ringing the Gestapo and demanding they turn off the lights
Castaway · 8 November 1992Sue Lawley

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

Commissioner Catherine Bramwell-Booth

Catherine Bramwell-Booth on marching cadets into the Silver Town explosion

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Merle Park

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Castaway · 26 February 1977Roy Plomley

Rosina Harrison

13°55′S 157°22′W

Rosina Harrison

Rosina Harrison on catching a fish she never got to eat

Castaway · 20 March 1976Roy Plomley

Dame Sibyl Hathaway

11°43′S 047°48′W

Dame Sibyl Hathaway

Sibyl Hathaway on why Sark still bans divorce and female dogs

Castaway · 23 October 1971Roy Plomley

Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

07°21′S 117°18′W

Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

How Montgomery refused to give in after his mother beat him for smoking

Castaway · 20 December 1969Roy Plomley

Lieutenant Colonel C H Jaeger

02°31′S 163°48′W

Lieutenant Colonel C H Jaeger

C H Jaeger on playing the trumpets at the 1937 coronation

Castaway · 18 November 1968Roy Plomley