Hungarian Quartet

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“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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Transmission

Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Hungarian Quartet — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Maggi Hambling
Maggi Hambling on drawing her mother in her coffin
Castaway · 18 December 2005Sue Lawley
Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on ducking out when Sylvia Plath begged him to stay
Castaway · 19 March 2000Sue Lawley
Carl Davis

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

Carl Davis on replacing pianists too frightened to play for Robert Shaw

Castaway · 21 August 1982Roy Plomley

06°04′S 124°11′W

Denys Lasdun on his horse being confiscated by the military police

Castaway · 18 December 1976Roy Plomley

16°09′S 049°51′W

Vincent Brome on wanting an inflatable woman to write on

Castaway · 6 March 1976Roy Plomley