Penny Lane — The Beatles — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Penny Lane — The Beatles — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Song

Penny Lane — The Beatles

8 episodes

Castaways who chose this

Annie Lennox
Bruce Tulloh
Engelbert Humperdinck
Frances Wood
Heidi Thomas
Rita Tushingham
Terry Jones

Rita Tushingham
Rita Tushingham on how people shouted 'Black and white don't mix' at her and Paul Danqua
Castaway · 19 June 2022Lauren Laverne
Heidi Thomas
Heidi Thomas on discovering her father's letters after his suicide
Castaway · 15 December 2019Lauren Laverne

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

Frances Wood on hanging upside down on a trapeze in the garden

Castaway · 5 December 2010Kirsty Young

21°21′S 095°06′W

Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox on losing her first child

Castaway · 11 May 2008Kirsty Young

Engelbert Humperdinck

19°53′S 157°59′W

Engelbert Humperdinck

Engelbert Humperdinck on starting the sideburns against all advice

Castaway · 19 December 2004Sue Lawley

14°59′S 101°01′W

Terry Jones

Terry Jones on hiding upstairs to write poems as a boy

Castaway · 2 July 1983Roy Plomley

07°31′S 065°58′W

Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais

Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais on meeting at The Uxbridge Arms and playing hearts

Castaway · 21 July 1979Roy Plomley

09°28′S 114°51′W

Bruce Tulloh

Bruce Tulloh on getting the idea to run across America from the Guinness Book of Records

Castaway · 23 November 1974Roy Plomley