John Shirley-Quirk

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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

John Shirley-Quirk — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2000s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horowitz on discovering writing as an escape from a cold boarding school
Castaway · 31 December 2006Kirsty Young
Pat Barker
Pat Barker on planning to work in a factory to fund her writing
Castaway · 7 December 2003Sue 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

Arthur Bliss on calling his wife to hammer a nail

Castaway · 29 July 1972Roy Plomley

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Henry Williamson on the famous Christmas fraternisation of 1914

Castaway · 11 October 1969Roy Plomley