Astrud Gilberto

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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

Astrud Gilberto — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

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Quentin Crewe
Quentin Crewe on having to carry his umbrella flapping like a rook at Eton
Castaway · 16 June 1996Sue Lawley
Paul Merton

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

Paul Merton on conducting the Joe Loss Orchestra with a knitting needle aged two

Castaway · 19 September 1993Sue Lawley

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J G Ballard on waiting 40 years to write his autobiography

Castaway · 2 February 1992Sue Lawley

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Bobby Robson on learning he was sacked by Fulham from a newspaper

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