Howard Keel

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

Howard Keel — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Dick Francis
Dick Francis on the heartbreaking collapse of Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National
Castaway · 13 December 1998Sue Lawley
Bruce Forsyth
How driving round the block three times helped Bruce Forsyth enter the London Palladium
Castaway · 1 December 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

How a breakdown liberated Elizabeth Jennings to write dozens of poems

Castaway · 3 January 1993Sue Lawley

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Percy Merriman on how a concert party was born at the foot of Mount Olympus

Castaway · 17 August 1964Roy Plomley