Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford

Tuning in…

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

Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Reverend David Jenkins
David Jenkins on the violence of the reaction to his questioning of the virgin birth
Castaway · 19 January 1992Sue Lawley
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney on reading 'View of a Pig' in the Belfast Public Library
Castaway · 19 November 1989Sue 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

Robert Burchfield on being happiest working in a hovel

Castaway · 20 April 1985Roy Plomley