Desert Island Dress

Inspired by the classic BBC radio programme broadcast, Desert Island Discs, our new podcast Desert Island Dress follows a similar arrangement and asks guests to choose four items of dress, items which likewise have shaped guests’ lives, that they could not bear to leave behind on the mainland. Items that cannot be replaced.

Desert Island Dress is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 59 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Desert Island Dress, a arts show with 59 episodes published.

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  Episode #14

  Post-analysis inspired by: Marie Kelly

  Dec 29, 202525 minS4

  <p>Welcome back to our post-analysis episode of Desert Island Dress. Every other week, we take a moment to reflect on the stories and choices shared in the main conversation and pull on one of the threads that caught our attention.  </p><p>🎨 This series features hand-drawn sketches of each of our guests by artist Louise Boughton @louiseboughton_ </p><p>✨ Stay connected with Desert Island Dress: </p><p> 📸 Instagram: @desert_island_dress </p><p> 🌐 Website: www.desertislanddress.com </p><p>💌 Our ask this series: share your favourite episode with a friend, or follow and subscribe on your podcast app — it really helps us grow! </p>

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  Episode #13

  Marie Kelly: The Quiet Power of Modesty

  Dec 22, 20251h 6mS4

  <p>Welcome to our final guest episode for Series 4 of Desert Island Dress with Marie Kelly, a writer whose work moves effortlessly between fashion, culture, art and everyday life.  </p><p>Beginning her career in London before returning to Ireland, Marie has spent more than two decades telling stories across luxury magazines and premium brands, with clients including Victoria Beckham, Stella McCartney and previous guest of Desert Island Dress, goldsmith, Nigel O’Reilly.  </p><p>Most recently, Marie has co-founded Só Consulting with Gavin Manley, a luxury consultancy rooted in the Irish idea of só: a state of ease, comfort and contentment, defined not...

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  Episode #12

  Postanalysis: inspired by conversations with Professor Angela McRobbie

  Dec 15, 202532 minS4

  <p>Welcome back to our post-analysis episode of Desert Island Dress. </p><p>Every other week, we take a moment to reflect on the stories and choices shared in the main conversation and pull on one of the threads that caught our attention.   </p><p>🎨 This series features hand-drawn sketches of your podcast hosts Dee & Katriona, and each of our guests by artist Louise Boughton @louiseboughton_ </p><p>✨ Stay connected with Desert Island Dress:  </p><p>📸 Instagram: ⁠⁠@desert_island_dress⁠⁠  </p><p> 🌐 Website: ⁠⁠www.desertislanddress.com⁠⁠  </p><p>💌 Our ask this series: share your favourite episode with a friend, or follow and subscribe on your podcast app — it re...

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  Episode #1

  Professor Angela McRobbie: The Social Life of Clothes

  Dec 8, 20251h 6mS4

  <p>Today, we are thrilled to share a conversation with someone whom both Katriona and I have admired for many years in our academic lives. When studying and teaching fashion, her work has always been a guiding force. She is the sociologist, feminist thinker, and cultural scholar, Professor Angela McRobbie. </p><p>Our discussion with Angela travels across countries and decades, bringing us into the creative and political energy of 1970s Glasgow, the feminist debates and vintage-hunting culture of Birmingham, and the vibrant artistic worlds she later encountered in London and Berlin. Along the way, she reflects on how clothing beco...

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  Episode #6

  Postanalysis: inspired by conversations with Liam Ó Maonlaí

  Dec 1, 202544 minS4

  <p>Welcome back to our post-analysis episode of Desert Island Dress. </p><p>Every other week, we take a moment to reflect on the stories and choices shared in the main conversation and pull on one of the threads that caught our attention.   </p><p>🎨 This series features hand-drawn sketches of your podcast hosts Dee & Katriona, and each of our guests by artist Louise Boughton @louiseboughton_ </p><p>✨ Stay connected with Desert Island Dress:  </p><p>📸 Instagram: ⁠⁠@desert_island_dress⁠⁠  </p><p> 🌐 Website: ⁠⁠www.desertislanddress.com⁠⁠  </p><p>💌 Our ask this series: share your favourite episode with a friend, or follow and subscribe on your podcast app - it re...

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