Julie London

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

Julie London — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

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Helen Fielding on the time her film crew drove over a landmine
Castaway · 5 July 2020Lauren Laverne
Rory Bremner
Rory Bremner on his father losing his job while in hospital with cancer
Castaway · 20 April 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

Suggs on sticking a pin in a jazz encyclopedia to find his stage name

Castaway · 19 May 2002Sue Lawley

04°39′S 054°11′W

How a year down the coal mines helped Vince Hill avoid the army

Castaway · 15 November 1975Roy Plomley

02°12′S 079°10′W

Dave Allen on making a child disappear by moving two paces

Castaway · 12 July 1975Roy Plomley