Jussi Björling and Robert Merrill

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

Jussi Björling and Robert Merrill — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Don Black
Don Black on seeing The Jolson Story 32 times as a child
Castaway · 22 October 1995Sue Lawley
Robert Lindsay
Robert Lindsay on walking into the gates of RADA, terrified
Castaway · 14 June 1992Sue Lawley
Peter Alliss

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

Peter Alliss on nearly killing someone in the RF regiment

Castaway · 29 March 1987Michael Parkinson

11°55′S 175°05′W

How a chance telephone call got Angela Rippon into television

Castaway · 16 January 1982Roy Plomley

13°52′S 172°56′W

How a quiet Sherlock Holmes trip to Switzerland became a world story for Paul Gore-Booth

Castaway · 13 November 1968Roy Plomley