Carlo Maria Giulini

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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

Carlo Maria Giulini — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Donald Sinden
How John Ford told Donald Sinden: 'We'll soon knock the hell out of that'
Castaway · 14 August 1982Roy Plomley
Tom Conti
How playing the guitar saved Tom Conti from crushing loneliness
Castaway · 22 November 1980Roy Plomley

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

Luciano Pavarotti on not being able to imagine himself alone for more than a day

Castaway · 14 February 1976Roy Plomley

03°08′S 143°10′W

How Philip Hope-Wallace was laughed at for naming Handel and Verdi as favourite composers at Oxford

Castaway · 30 March 1974Roy Plomley