Itzhak Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy

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

Itzhak Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Ronald Harwood
Ronald Harwood on Donald Wolfit kicking his legs in the air after his knighthood
Castaway · 27 August 2000Sue Lawley
Professor Géza Vermes
Géza Vermes on becoming a priest because he couldn't go to university
Castaway · 4 June 2000Sue 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

Kenneth Williams on the newsvendor whose voice he used for Gramp Fattock

Castaway · 26 July 1987Michael Parkinson

00°06′S 004°09′W

Jacquetta Hawkes on drawing bison and mammoth in a cave as a child

Castaway · 15 November 1980Roy Plomley