Jack Teagarden

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

Jack Teagarden — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Sue Townsend
Sue Townsend on learning to read at eight with William books
Castaway · 8 December 1991Sue Lawley
Richard Condon
How writing the first letter of each word cured Richard Condon's stutter
Castaway · 28 September 1986Michael Parkinson
Michael Ffolkes

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

Michael Ffolkes on selling his first cartoon aged ten

Castaway · 19 October 1984Roy Plomley

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How a blatant lie about German helped Len Deighton get a job at BOAC

Castaway · 19 June 1976Roy Plomley

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Louis Armstrong on being sent to an orphanage for shooting his father’s gun on New Year’s Eve

Castaway · 5 August 1968Roy Plomley