Anna Russell

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desert is.land

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

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Transmission

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

Anna Russell — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

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Decades seen

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How Jorge Bolet's Carnegie Hall debut audience included Rachmaninoff, Horowitz and Heifetz
Castaway · 2 March 1985Roy Plomley

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

Kiri Te Kanawa on her dramatic last-minute Metropolitan Opera debut

Castaway · 8 March 1980Roy Plomley

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Elisabeth Soderstrom on her son inviting friends to watch 'mummy, she's so funny'

Castaway · 8 December 1979Roy Plomley