Judi Dench

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“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

Judi Dench — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

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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

Michael Hordern on being compared to an Armenian carpet seller

Castaway · 15 February 1987Michael Parkinson

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How playing Edward VII made Timothy West expect doors to open for him

Castaway · 16 February 1980Roy Plomley

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How a last-minute casting for The Merry Wives of Windsor brought Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson together

Castaway · 28 January 1978Roy Plomley