Jascha Heifetz — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Jascha Heifetz — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Jascha Heifetz

18 episodes

Chosen over the decades

18

Total castaways

1960s

Peak decade

6

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Alfredo Campoli
Bernice Rubens
Dame Maggie Teyte
Dennis Brain
George Lloyd
Itzhak Perlman
James Galway
James Gunn RA
Joan Baez
Jorge Bolet
Kyung-Wha Chung
Leo McKern
Liberace
Lorin Maazel
Salvatore Accardo
Simon Schama
Sir William Walton
Tommy Reilly

Lorin Maazel
Lorin Maazel on not batting an eye when a musician fell off the stage
Castaway · 3 April 2005Sue Lawley
Simon Schama
Simon Schama on discovering his ancestors were Jewish lumberjacks
Castaway · 2 September 2001Sue Lawley

desert is.land

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

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Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

George Lloyd on surviving a shipwreck that drowned his comrades in thick black oil

Castaway · 23 April 1995Sue Lawley

06°58′S 097°00′W

Joan Baez

Joan Baez on first seeing Bob Dylan at Gertie's Folk City

Castaway · 20 June 1993Sue Lawley

02°38′S 114°00′W

Bernice Rubens

Bernice Rubens on her father's mistaken ticket to Cardiff

Castaway · 8 September 1991Sue Lawley

23°22′S 027°04′W

Jorge Bolet

How Jorge Bolet's Carnegie Hall debut audience included Rachmaninoff, Horowitz and Heifetz

Castaway · 2 March 1985Roy Plomley

20°38′S 174°19′W

Leo McKern

Leo McKern on receiving the Rumpole script out of the blue

Castaway · 28 April 1984Roy Plomley

Sir William Walton

08°57′S 112°49′W

Sir William Walton

William Walton on choristers threatening to quit over Belshazzar's Feast

Castaway · 27 March 1982Roy Plomley

Salvatore Accardo

12°49′S 085°16′W

Salvatore Accardo

Salvatore Accardo on learning to read music before he could read print

Castaway · 26 April 1980Roy Plomley

Kyung-Wha Chung

01°45′S 085°21′W

Kyung-Wha Chung

Kyung-Wha Chung on being banned from concerts by Jascha Heifetz

Castaway · 29 December 1979Roy Plomley

21°18′S 094°50′W

Itzhak Perlman

Itzhak Perlman on playing soccer as a goalie on crutches

Castaway · 29 April 1978Roy Plomley

22°59′S 161°48′W

James Galway

James Galway on being forced by German law to take a job he won

Castaway · 14 August 1976Roy Plomley

Dame Maggie Teyte

01°36′S 073°03′W

Dame Maggie Teyte

Maggie Teyte on being told she was forgotten in America

Castaway · 15 April 1968Roy Plomley

16°48′S 018°32′W

James Gunn RA

James Gunn on being the last guest in Downing Street

Castaway · 1 January 1962Roy Plomley

15°16′S 132°16′W

Tommy Reilly

Tommy Reilly on getting harmonicas from a German welfare officer in a prison camp

Castaway · 2 October 1961Roy Plomley

14°09′S 041°05′W

Liberace

Liberace on his fear of bugs at outdoor concerts

Castaway · 23 May 1960Roy Plomley

21°35′S 103°57′W

Dennis Brain

Dennis Brain on his father offering him an old horn to try

Castaway · 13 August 1956Roy Plomley

Alfredo Campoli

19°47′S 029°38′W

Alfredo Campoli

Alfredo Campoli on performing 100 concerts for wounded soldiers at age nine

Castaway · 21 August 1953Roy Plomley