In My Life — The Beatles — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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In My Life — The Beatles — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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In My Life — The Beatles

8 episodes

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Alan Bleasdale
Bob Geldof
David Essex
Jeremy Bowen
Jimmy Mulville
Len Goodman
Rt Hon Tony Blair MP
Willy Russell

Jeremy Bowen
Jeremy Bowen on hearing his first shots in war and feeling excited
Castaway · 4 June 2023Lauren Laverne
Len Goodman
Len Goodman on his childhood Saturday night sing-songs by the fireplace
Castaway · 19 June 2011Kirsty Young
Jimmy Mulville

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

Jimmy Mulville on spending a year contemplating the death of his acting dreams

Castaway · 1 August 2010Kirsty Young

Rt Hon Tony Blair MP

18°14′S 012°44′W

Rt Hon Tony Blair MP

Tony Blair on the morning his father had a stroke

Castaway · 24 November 1996Sue Lawley

16°43′S 171°04′W

Willy Russell

Willy Russell on the woman who told him the same story every week for two years

Castaway · 23 January 1994Sue Lawley

19°48′S 029°39′W

Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof on the Live Aid moment he realised people in Shanghai or Tierra del Fuego were watching

Castaway · 6 September 1992Sue Lawley

09°41′S 126°58′W

Alan Bleasdale

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

Castaway · 25 August 1991Sue Lawley

11°52′S 003°47′W

David Essex

David Essex on the music from a Soho basement that felt like a star over Bethlehem

Castaway · 10 July 1988Michael Parkinson