Beaux Arts Trio — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Beaux Arts Trio — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Beaux Arts Trio

10 episodes

Chosen over the decades

10

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Beaux Arts Trio
Carmen Callil
Dame Fanny Waterman
Frederic Raphael
Gene Wilder
Jared Diamond
Julia Donaldson
Lord Armstrong
Sir John Sulston
Sir Peter Hall

Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond on his only depression after a MacArthur Genius Grant
Castaway · 30 June 2019Lauren Laverne
Dame Fanny Waterman
Fanny Waterman on sharing a toilet with five neighbours
Castaway · 4 July 2010Kirsty Young

desert is.land

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

The listing

Find a castaway
Most requested
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Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Julia Donaldson

Julia Donaldson on her son persuading her to finish The Gruffalo

Castaway · 15 November 2009Kirsty Young

Sir John Sulston

23°51′S 153°03′W

Sir John Sulston

John Sulston on holding the human genome on a CD-ROM

Castaway · 13 May 2001Sue Lawley

11°04′S 139°05′W

Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder on making his mother laugh after her heart attack

Castaway · 2 February 1997Sue Lawley

20°11′S 101°38′W

Carmen Callil

Carmen Callil on believing God is after her with a scythe

Castaway · 6 December 1992Sue Lawley

09°33′S 020°03′W

Lord Armstrong

Lord Armstrong on going to Buckingham Palace with Heath to resign and returning with Wilson

Castaway · 24 July 1988Michael Parkinson

22°26′S 144°03′W

Sir Peter Hall

How teaching economics in the RAF taught Peter Hall to direct

Castaway · 12 November 1983Roy Plomley

Beaux Arts Trio

11°48′S 134°30′W

Beaux Arts Trio

Beaux Arts Trio on trading a gun for a violin

Castaway · 3 October 1981Roy Plomley

Frederic Raphael

07°32′S 065°01′W

Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael on having to explain why a character is named Martha not Georgina

Castaway · 21 February 1981Roy Plomley