Helen Shapiro

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

Helen Shapiro — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1960s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

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Danny Baker on leaving school at 14 to work in a record shop
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Martin Pipe
Martin Pipe on buying a cheap racehorse with three legs
Castaway · 18 July 1999Sue Lawley
David Frost

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

David Frost on his childhood terror of missionaries because of leprosy

Castaway · 15 April 1963Roy Plomley