Let It Be — The Beatles — Song

desert is.landest. 1942

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Let It Be — The Beatles — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Let It Be — The Beatles

8 episodes

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Dame Wendy Hall
Frank Muir
Goldie Hawn
Peter Scudamore
Piers Morgan
Professor Dame Kay Davies
Rowan Atkinson
Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci on being shocked by the erotic reaction to his negroni clip
Castaway · 2 July 2023Lauren Laverne
Dame Wendy Hall
Wendy Hall on being told she didn't get a job because she was a woman
Castaway · 27 July 2014Kirsty Young

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

Goldie Hawn

Goldie Hawn on watching baboons jump on Peter Sellers' Rolls-Royce

Castaway · 23 September 2012Kirsty Young

Piers Morgan

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Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan on walking barefoot on Miami Beach with Rupert Murdoch

Castaway · 7 June 2009Kirsty Young

Professor Dame Kay Davies

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Professor Dame Kay Davies

Kay Davies on her parents almost having to glue her to the seat at Oxford

Castaway · 15 February 2009Kirsty Young

Peter Scudamore

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Peter Scudamore

Peter Scudamore on throwing stones at posts as a child to predict his racing success

Castaway · 29 May 1994Sue Lawley

Rowan Atkinson

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Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Atkinson on improvising in front of a mirror to create his first characters

Castaway · 15 May 1988Michael Parkinson

Frank Muir

03°23′S 042°44′W

Frank Muir

How claiming to organise concert parties got Frank Muir out of RAF guard duty

Castaway · 2 October 1976Roy Plomley

Stanley Tucci

Dame Wendy Hall

Piers Morgan

Professor Dame Kay Davies

Peter Scudamore

Rowan Atkinson

Frank Muir