Gerard Souzay

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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

Gerard Souzay — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Kenneth Williams
Kenneth Williams on the newsvendor whose voice he used for Gramp Fattock
Castaway · 26 July 1987Michael Parkinson
Elly Ameling
Elly Ameling on Pierre Bernac’s cocker spaniel face
Castaway · 9 February 1985Roy Plomley

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

Bernard Miles on early morning trips to Covent Garden aged five

Castaway · 20 March 1982Roy Plomley

01°06′S 026°44′W

Antal Dorati on shooting watermelons with a bow and arrow

Castaway · 25 July 1960Roy Plomley

05°34′S 024°40′W

Lotte Lehmann on being frightened to death of Toscanini

Castaway · 22 June 1959Roy Plomley