George Malcolm

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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

George Malcolm — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1970s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

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How lying drunk in an Innsbruck field gave Douglas Adams his Hitchhiker's idea
Castaway · 6 February 1994Sue Lawley
Rt Hon. Denis Healey
Denis Healey on inventing a welly box
Castaway · 26 August 1978Roy Plomley
Jack Parnell

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

Jack Parnell on the night Luciano Pavarotti stood in wearing jodhpurs

Castaway · 25 June 1977Roy Plomley

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Peter Pears on his first concert with Benjamin Britten for Spanish Republican funds

Castaway · 21 July 1969Roy Plomley