Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

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desert is.land

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

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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus — Artist · desert is.land

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5 episodes

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1990s

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Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar
Jeremy Farrar on failing his A-levels
Castaway · 6 December 2020Lauren Laverne
Diana Athill
Diana Athill on discovering the facts of life at age 11 in a book by Mary Stopes
Castaway · 20 June 2004Sue Lawley

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

Glenys Kinnock on her father's Suez Canal lesson in 1956

Castaway · 20 November 1994Sue Lawley

11°49′S 123°08′W

How lying drunk in an Innsbruck field gave Douglas Adams his Hitchhiker's idea

Castaway · 6 February 1994Sue Lawley

08°55′S 029°30′W

John Smith on being told he was fine before collapsing with a heart attack

Castaway · 26 May 1991Sue Lawley