Eartha Kitt

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

Eartha Kitt — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Lady Margaret Tebbit
Margaret Tebbit on kicking her husband
Castaway · 31 December 1995Sue Lawley
Adele Leigh
Adele Leigh on bursting into tears after her first night applause in Follies
Castaway · 10 January 1988Michael Parkinson
Sir Michael Tippett

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

Michael Tippett on serving two months in prison as a conscientious objector

Castaway · 5 January 1985Roy Plomley