She's Leaving Home — The Beatles — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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She's Leaving Home — The Beatles — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Song

She's Leaving Home — The Beatles

6 episodes

Castaways who chose this

Anthony Grey
Chris Haskins
David Morrissey
Lord Alf Dubs
Lord King
Professor Dame Carol Robinson

David Morrissey
David Morrissey on being born in a house with an outside toilet and a tin bath
Castaway · 10 May 2026Lauren Laverne
Professor Dame Carol Robinson
Carol Robinson on escaping out of her bedroom window as a child
Castaway · 10 August 2025Lauren 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

Lord Alf Dubs

Alf Dubs on the policewoman who asked if his speech would make any difference

Castaway · 15 June 2025Lauren Laverne

08°22′S 083°23′W

Chris Haskins

Chris Haskins on getting paid £5 to write about the Aldermaston march

Castaway · 14 December 1997Sue Lawley

14°14′S 000°11′W

Lord King

Lord King on cutting 23,000 jobs at British Airways

Castaway · 14 April 1991Sue Lawley

02°57′S 056°22′W

Anthony Grey

Anthony Grey on renaming Desert Island Discs 'Donatitis Discs'

Castaway · 1 November 1969Roy Plomley