Barbara Dixon

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

Barbara Dixon — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

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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

Willy Russell on the woman who told him the same story every week for two years

Castaway · 23 January 1994Sue Lawley

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Douglas Hurd on a coronation bonfire and a wife's knickers caught in the wire

Castaway · 12 June 1988Michael Parkinson