Dame Clara Butt

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

Dame Clara Butt — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1960s

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Decades seen

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Castaway · 18 November 1978Roy Plomley
Lavinia 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

Lavinia Young on mumbling 'Man's inhumanity to man' as bombs fell

Castaway · 21 December 1964Roy Plomley