City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

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

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Penelope Hobhouse
Penelope Hobhouse on writing her first book after buying a typewriter at Woolworths
Castaway · 18 December 1994Sue Lawley
Dame Cicely Saunders
Cicely Saunders on the patient who thanked her for telling him he was dying
Castaway · 30 January 1994Sue 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

Louis Fremaux on conducting a memorial concert that launched his career

Castaway · 1 October 1977Roy Plomley