Hariprasad Chaurasia

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

Hariprasad Chaurasia — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

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Antony Gormley on his wife giving him 'birth' through plaster body casts
Castaway · 10 May 1998Sue Lawley
Sir Laurens Van Der Post
Laurens Van Der Post on resolving to apologize to the Bushmen at age eight
Castaway · 10 November 1996Sue Lawley

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

Salman Rushdie on the triple whammy of being bad at games, good at studies, and foreign

Castaway · 18 September 1988Michael Parkinson