Heddle Nash

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

Heddle Nash — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1960s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Neil Kinnock
Neil Kinnock on his mother dying of a broken heart
Castaway · 1 May 1988Michael Parkinson
Charles Groves
Charles Groves on seeing Toscanini cry while conducting
Castaway · 1 July 1972Roy 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

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

Castaway · 8 February 1965Roy Plomley

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Wilfrid Brambell on entertaining wounded soldiers at age two and a half

Castaway · 30 March 1964Roy Plomley