Janáček Quartet

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desert is.land

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

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

Janáček Quartet — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Dervla Murphy
Dervla Murphy on knowing at age 10 she would cycle to India
Castaway · 17 January 1993Sue Lawley
Klaus Tennstedt
How Klaus Tennstedt conducted his first opera without any prior experience
Castaway · 22 September 1991Sue 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

Geoffrey Grigson on his headmaster telling him he would read classics

Castaway · 16 October 1982Roy Plomley

19°17′S 121°57′W

Richard Armstrong on how the Barber of Seville put him off opera

Castaway · 3 April 1982Roy Plomley