Rock Around the Clock — Bill Haley & His Comets — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Rock Around the Clock — Bill Haley & His Comets — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Song

Rock Around the Clock — Bill Haley & His Comets

6 episodes

Castaways who chose this

Clarissa Dickson Wright
Julie Goodyear
Lord Charteris
Robert McCrum
Sir Tom Jones
Stephen Frears

Julie Goodyear
Julie Goodyear on learning her son was saving pocket money for a dad
Castaway · 17 March 2013Kirsty Young
Sir Tom Jones
Tom Jones on his father going to work in the coal mine after he bought a Jaguar
Castaway · 26 September 2010Kirsty 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

Stephen Frears on sitting in the kitchen with his mother playing cards in the 1940s

Castaway · 18 January 2004Sue Lawley

18°25′S 140°24′W

Robert McCrum

Robert McCrum on crawling downstairs after his stroke

Castaway · 5 March 2000Sue Lawley

Clarissa Dickson Wright

21°32′S 017°37′W

Clarissa Dickson Wright

Clarissa Dickson Wright on the carrots her father fed her, still with slugs on them

Castaway · 21 November 1999Sue Lawley

08°56′S 022°46′W

Lord Charteris

Charteris on being one of four survivors from a lifeboat of twelve

Castaway · 9 September 1990Sue Lawley