Alan Price

Tuning in…

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

The listing

Transmission

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

Alan Price — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Geoffrey Palmer
Geoffrey Palmer on cleaning out the grate when Laurence Olivier rang
Castaway · 27 February 2005Sue Lawley
Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble on swallowing paracetamol out of bad temper
Castaway · 6 May 2001Sue Lawley
Clare Short MP

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

The listing

Transmission

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

Clare Short on the moment her Catholic faith crumbled over contraception

Castaway · 5 July 1992Sue Lawley

21°51′S 111°40′W

Lindsay Anderson on writing 'I rebel about nothing in particular' on a looking glass aged nine

Castaway · 3 May 1980Roy Plomley