Dave Brubeck Quartet

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desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Dave Brubeck Quartet — Artist · desert is.land

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4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1970s

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Decades seen

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Maeve Binchy
Maeve Binchy on losing her faith after a disappointing visit to Jerusalem
Castaway · 10 June 1990Sue 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

Raymond Briggs on an art school principal scoffing at his cartoonist dream

Castaway · 4 June 1983Roy Plomley

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Simon Rattle on the terrifying moment before his first rehearsal with an orchestra

Castaway · 5 August 1978Roy Plomley