English Chamber Orchestra

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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

English Chamber Orchestra — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Jeremy Hutchinson
Jeremy Hutchinson on singing 'Roll out the barrel' with Lord Mountbatten
Castaway · 20 October 2013Kirsty Young
Sir Ian MacGregor
How a tank-building mission took Ian MacGregor from Glasgow to America
Castaway · 5 October 1986Michael Parkinson
Rosamond 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

Rosamond Lehmann on the psychic experiences after her daughter's death

Castaway · 13 November 1982Roy Plomley

13°47′S 167°51′W

Michael Holroyd on arguing so persuasively his father told him to profit from it

Castaway · 22 January 1977Roy Plomley