Dame Myra Hess

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 Myra Hess — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

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Decades seen

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Dilys Powell
Dilys Powell on being banned by MGM for criticising Gone with the Wind
Castaway · 24 November 1991Sue 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

Elwyn-Jones on the emotional ordeal of reading the death sentence in court

Castaway · 11 February 1984Roy Plomley