Benno Moiseiwitsch — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Benno Moiseiwitsch — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Benno Moiseiwitsch

10 episodes

Chosen over the decades

10

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Arnold Ridley
Benno Moiseiwitsch
Dennis Brain
Evelyn Laye
James Gunn RA
Jorge Bolet
Kenneth Connor
Leslie Mitchell
Stanley Holloway
Winston Graham

Jorge Bolet
How Jorge Bolet's Carnegie Hall debut audience included Rachmaninoff, Horowitz and Heifetz
Castaway · 2 March 1985Roy Plomley
Winston Graham
Winston Graham on keeping his early novels 'decently interred'
Castaway · 26 November 1977Roy Plomley
Stanley Holloway

desert is.land

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

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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

Stanley Holloway on his first job taking his boss's head to be ironed

Castaway · 25 October 1975Roy Plomley

Leslie Mitchell

07°45′S 107°38′W

Leslie Mitchell

How Leslie Mitchell spoke the first words on television

Castaway · 1 June 1974Roy Plomley

16°17′S 121°02′W

Arnold Ridley

Arnold Ridley on needing more makeup to look young enough

Castaway · 3 November 1973Roy Plomley

08°24′S 016°34′W

Evelyn Laye

Evelyn Laye on being asked her name as a baby and replying 'Boo boo'

Castaway · 23 June 1969Roy Plomley

22°13′S 038°48′W

Kenneth Connor

Kenneth Connor on his first broadcast before the war

Castaway · 22 June 1964Roy Plomley

16°48′S 018°32′W

James Gunn RA

James Gunn on being the last guest in Downing Street

Castaway · 1 January 1962Roy Plomley

Benno Moiseiwitsch

09°12′S 169°08′W

Benno Moiseiwitsch

How a fallen brick got Benno Moiseiwitsch expelled from school

Castaway · 27 October 1958Roy Plomley

21°35′S 103°57′W

Dennis Brain

Dennis Brain on his father offering him an old horn to try

Castaway · 13 August 1956Roy Plomley