Amadeus String Quartet

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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

Amadeus String Quartet — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1970s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

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Sir Peter Pears
Peter Pears on scoring 81 not out at the Oval as a young cricketer
Castaway · 11 June 1983Roy Plomley
Henry Cecil

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

How a bottle of aspirin would be Henry Cecil's means of escape

Castaway · 8 July 1972Roy Plomley