Elizabeth Schumann

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

Elizabeth Schumann — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

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Total castaways

1970s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Eric Simms
How Eric Simms hauled 1,800 feet of cable up a cliff to record a golden eagle
Castaway · 5 June 1976Roy Plomley
Henry Cecil
How a bottle of aspirin would be Henry Cecil's means of escape
Castaway · 8 July 1972Roy Plomley
Lotte Lehmann

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

Lotte Lehmann on being frightened to death of Toscanini

Castaway · 22 June 1959Roy Plomley