Juilliard String Quartet — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Juilliard String Quartet — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Juilliard String Quartet

9 episodes

Chosen over the decades

9

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Athene Donald
Beaux Arts Trio
Christopher Fry
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Sir Lennox Berkeley
Stephen Hough
Tony Bennett
Ved Mehta
Vladimir Ashkenazy

Stephen Hough
Stephen Hough on being mugged and then approached by a sinister stranger
Castaway · 9 October 2016Kirsty Young
Athene Donald
Athene Donald on hiding her parents' separation for two years
Castaway · 22 March 2009Kirsty Young

desert is.land

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

The listing

Find a castaway
Most requested
Browse the archive
About

Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
Report a fault

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

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala on eating Indian sweets by the pound

Castaway · 24 January 1999Sue Lawley

14°07′S 049°31′W

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett on his first job as a singing waiter at 16

Castaway · 4 January 1987Michael Parkinson

16°37′S 006°22′W

Ved Mehta

Ved Mehta on the 1,300-mile journey to a school for the blind

Castaway · 25 August 1984Roy Plomley

Beaux Arts Trio

11°48′S 134°30′W

Beaux Arts Trio

Beaux Arts Trio on trading a gun for a violin

Castaway · 3 October 1981Roy Plomley

Vladimir Ashkenazy

15°17′S 008°54′W

Vladimir Ashkenazy

How Vladimir Ashkenazy was told to compete or forget his career

Castaway · 2 December 1978Roy Plomley

Christopher Fry

00°56′S 011°49′W

Christopher Fry

Christopher Fry on taking letters to the post at midnight

Castaway · 7 October 1978Roy Plomley

Sir Lennox Berkeley

23°37′S 077°34′W

Sir Lennox Berkeley

Lennox Berkeley on Nadia Boulanger showing him what was missing in his music

Castaway · 13 May 1978Roy Plomley