Jon Vickers

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

Jon Vickers — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Elijah Moshinsky
Elijah Moshinsky on the night people walked out of his play because the theatre had no centre aisle
Castaway · 28 February 1993Sue Lawley
Josephine Barstow
Josephine Barstow on the morning she decided to become an opera singer
Castaway · 13 October 1979Roy Plomley
Charles Groves

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

Charles Groves on seeing Toscanini cry while conducting

Castaway · 1 July 1972Roy Plomley