Karl Richter

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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

Karl Richter — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

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James Ivory

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

James Ivory on envying BBC's Henry James adaptations

Castaway · 19 February 1983Roy Plomley

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Raymond Leppard on the fire that destroyed his Monteverdi score

Castaway · 4 March 1972Roy Plomley