George Baker

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

George Baker — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1960s

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Decades seen

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Owen Brannigan

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

How a BBC broadcast made Owen Brannigan a principal bass at Sadler's Wells

Castaway · 8 February 1965Roy Plomley