Strawberry Fields Forever — The Beatles — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Strawberry Fields Forever — The Beatles — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Song

Strawberry Fields Forever — The Beatles

7 episodes

Castaways who chose this

David Edgar
Douglas Fairbanks Jnr
Greg Dyke
Kenny Everett
Martin Freeman
Tim Smit
Zandra Rhodes

Martin Freeman
Martin Freeman on auditioning for the wrong role in The Office
Castaway · 31 March 2019Lauren Laverne
Greg Dyke
Greg Dyke on reading Lord Hutton's report and knowing the public would side with the BBC
Castaway · 20 May 2007Kirsty Young
David Edgar

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
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

David Edgar on the night before his wife died when she said 'I do have a right to my anger'

Castaway · 30 July 2006Sue Lawley

06°40′S 160°13′W

Tim Smit

Tim Smit on discovering a secret garden door in the Lost Gardens of Heligan

Castaway · 10 December 2000Sue Lawley

18°05′S 004°35′W

Kenny Everett

Kenny Everett on being left hanging in a harness during a Quasimodo sketch

Castaway · 24 October 1993Sue Lawley

00°35′S 140°12′W

Zandra Rhodes

Zandra Rhodes on inheriting £1,000 and taking her collection to America

Castaway · 12 February 1983Roy Plomley

Douglas Fairbanks Jnr

22°33′S 159°17′W

Douglas Fairbanks Jnr

Douglas Fairbanks Jnr on being sacked from his first film job at 13

Castaway · 29 May 1976Roy Plomley