Image: Roy Plomley relaxes on his desert island for an Arena Special in 1981. Desert Island Discs was devised by Roy Plomley, who presented the first edition on 29 January 1942. It was recorded ...

Read all about the history of Desert Island Discs.

Nick Cave has appeared on Desert Island Discs, the long-running BBC Radio show which asks its guests to name the eight songs they'd choose to keep if they were banished to a desert island. Cave, whose ...

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Europe's beautiful "desert island" has no homes or roads, and its secluded beaches are some of the quietest in the Algarve. The strip of water disconnecting it from the mainland allows natural ...

Selected castaway gems from the BBC Desert Island Discs archive.

Cave told Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4: “I always thought I’d stop doing it when I couldn’t do knee drops any more. “Actually, when I look back, I haven’t done something (in a while) … I could ...

This Google Maps image captured in 2021 revealed a mysterious, triangular dark patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ...

Kelvonnah Stidhum is the mastermind behind Fly Girl Prints, a collection of artwork that celebrates both Black culture and ...

If Obiter has a criticism of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, it’s that it doesn’t have nearly enough solicitors on. So it was a nice surprise to tune in and find out the castaway was Harriet ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — A new tool that predicts the behavior of desert locust populations will help national agencies to manage huge swarms before they devastate food crops in Africa and ...

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