Love Me Do — The Beatles — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Love Me Do — The Beatles — Song · desert is.land

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Love Me Do — The Beatles

10 episodes

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Baroness Hale of Richmond
Darcey Bussell
Derek Brown
Jimmy Tarbuck
Nicholas Grimshaw
Roger McGough
Rt Hon Barbara Castle
Sir Ken Robinson
Susan Hill
Tom Stoppard

Baroness Hale of Richmond
Brenda Hale on why she wore a spider brooch for the prorogation judgment
Castaway · 19 September 2021Lauren Laverne
Sir Ken Robinson
Ken Robinson on meeting his wife Terry the week his father died
Castaway · 3 November 2013Kirsty 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

Darcey Bussell

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04°11′S 011°56′W

Jimmy Tarbuck

Jimmy Tarbuck on being brought home by policemen for stealing apples

Castaway · 11 January 2004Sue Lawley

Nicholas Grimshaw

23°38′S 137°43′W

Nicholas Grimshaw

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Castaway · 14 December 2003Sue Lawley

12°13′S 169°50′W

Derek Brown

Derek Brown on his first taste of hot foie gras

Castaway · 25 May 2003Sue Lawley

15°34′S 114°02′W

Susan Hill

How Susan Hill wrote a book to cope with the death of her baby Imogen

Castaway · 11 February 1996Sue Lawley

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Roger McGough

Roger McGough on having his mind opened by French poets at Hull University

Castaway · 10 April 1994Sue Lawley

Rt Hon Barbara Castle

20°35′S 170°53′W

Rt Hon Barbara Castle

Barbara Castle on her mother’s feeding kitchen for miners’ children during the 1920s lockout

Castaway · 11 November 1990Sue Lawley

21°26′S 069°49′W

Tom Stoppard

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