Dame Eva Turner

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“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 Eva Turner — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

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John Thaw on being transfixed by Sibelius's first symphony
Castaway · 7 October 1990Sue Lawley
Rt. Hon. Michael Heseltine
How a broken pair led Michael Heseltine to seize the mace
Castaway · 17 January 1988Michael Parkinson
Bernard Levin

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

Bernard Levin on how being forced to learn the violin nearly poisoned him for music

Castaway · 25 October 1987Michael Parkinson

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Linda Esther Gray on being told she had no voice at Sunday school

Castaway · 22 October 1983Roy Plomley

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Oliver Ford on finding himself in the middle of a minefield

Castaway · 5 March 1977Roy Plomley