Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

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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

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck on dreaming the entire Our Father for his Mass
Castaway · 3 January 1999Sue Lawley
John Bird
John Bird on meeting a large-nosed Scotsman in a pub while on the run
Castaway · 21 June 1998Sue Lawley
Dennis Potter

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

Dennis Potter on his father asking 'Is that all right, Obat?'

Castaway · 21 February 1988Michael Parkinson

01°34′S 099°45′W

Jack Parnell on the night Luciano Pavarotti stood in wearing jodhpurs

Castaway · 25 June 1977Roy Plomley