Boston Symphony Orchestra — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Boston Symphony Orchestra — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Boston Symphony Orchestra

7 episodes

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7

Total castaways

1980s

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4

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Castaways who chose this

Claudio Abbado
Dilys Powell
Kaffe Fassett
Professor Glyn Daniel
Ronald Blythe
Sir Cecil Beaton
Sir Peter Lampl

Sir Peter Lampl
Peter Lampl on funding the campaign for a handgun ban after Dunblane
Castaway · 13 May 2018Kirsty Young
Ronald Blythe
Ronald Blythe on how a walk with Christine Nash led him to write a novel
Castaway · 15 April 2001Sue Lawley
Dilys Powell

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

Dilys Powell on being banned by MGM for criticising Gone with the Wind

Castaway · 24 November 1991Sue Lawley

20°03′S 127°22′W

Kaffe Fassett

How a fellow passenger taught Kaffe Fassett to knit on a train

Castaway · 1 July 1990Sue Lawley

Professor Glyn Daniel

18°03′S 041°15′W

Professor Glyn Daniel

Glyn Daniel on visiting every megalithic monument in southern Britain

Castaway · 7 November 1981Roy Plomley

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Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado on deciding to become a conductor at age seven after hearing his first concert at La Scala

Castaway · 9 February 1980Roy Plomley

Sir Cecil Beaton

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Sir Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton on first hearing the Merry Widow from a hurdy gurdy man aged five

Castaway · 26 January 1980Roy Plomley