Choir of Westminster Abbey

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 Westminster Abbey — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2010s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin
Rose Hudson-Wilkin on fetching water from a standpipe as a child in Jamaica
Castaway · 19 January 2014Kirsty Young
Margaret Rhodes
Margaret Rhodes on firing a magazine at a low-flying German plane
Castaway · 3 June 2012Kirsty Young

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

Anthony Howard on how friendship with Charles Straitshey changed his politics

Castaway · 30 May 1999Sue Lawley

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David Steel on becoming a Liberal by accident

Castaway · 4 May 1985Roy Plomley