Bunny Berigan

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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

Bunny Berigan — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Geoffrey Palmer
Geoffrey Palmer on cleaning out the grate when Laurence Olivier rang
Castaway · 27 February 2005Sue Lawley
Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert on his therapist talking him through a committee meeting
Castaway · 6 October 1996Sue Lawley
Victoria Wood

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

Victoria Wood on writing a song after being rejected for a part in Loot

Castaway · 8 February 1987Michael Parkinson

19°55′S 153°22′W

Norman Parkinson on moving to a desert island to be well rehearsed

Castaway · 30 December 1978Roy Plomley

19°11′S 124°02′W

Shirley Conran on walking down Tottenham Court Road with her morale shattered

Castaway · 16 July 1977Roy Plomley