Emerson String 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.

The listing

Transmission

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

Emerson String Quartet — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Simon McBurney
Simon McBurney on his terrified lift ride to meet Al Pacino
Castaway · 15 July 2012Kirsty Young
Dr Hanna Segal
Hanna Segal on deciding not to go to the Spanish Civil War
Castaway · 23 July 2006Sue Lawley
Daniel Libeskind

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

Daniel Libeskind on the piano his parents hid in a suitcase

Castaway · 29 June 2003Sue Lawley

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Anthony Storr on being sent away to boarding school at eight

Castaway · 31 January 1993Sue Lawley