When I'm Sixty-Four — The Beatles — Song

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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When I'm Sixty-Four — The Beatles — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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When I'm Sixty-Four — The Beatles

8 episodes

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Alan Alda
Barry Norman
Dr Christiaan Barnard
Eric Newby
George Carman QC
Mary Wesley
Richard Condon
Shirley Conran

Alan Alda
How Alan Alda's mother saved his life from polio
Castaway · 27 October 1991Sue Lawley
George Carman QC
George Carman on giving up the priesthood because he liked women
Castaway · 24 June 1990Sue Lawley
Mary Wesley

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

Mary Wesley on not being able to afford a stamp until pension day

Castaway · 22 April 1990Sue Lawley

Richard Condon

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Richard Condon

How writing the first letter of each word cured Richard Condon's stutter

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Eric Newby

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Eric Newby

Eric Newby on climbing the rigging in slippery shoes

Castaway · 19 June 1982Roy Plomley

Barry Norman

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Barry Norman

Barry Norman on being hurled into a racial maelstrom as a 19-year-old journalist

Castaway · 25 August 1979Roy Plomley

Shirley Conran

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Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran on walking down Tottenham Court Road with her morale shattered

Castaway · 16 July 1977Roy Plomley

Dr Christiaan Barnard

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Dr Christiaan Barnard

Christiaan Barnard on the loneliness after his first transplant patient died

Castaway · 17 April 1976Roy Plomley