Lisa Della Casa — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Lisa Della Casa — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Lisa Della Casa

7 episodes

Chosen over the decades

7

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

3

Decades seen

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Barry Tuckwell
John Curry
John Julius Norwich
Joseph Cooper
Malcolm Muggeridge
Philip Hope-Wallace
Sir Ernst Gombrich

Sir Ernst Gombrich
Ernst Gombrich on dictating The Story of Art without a draft
Castaway · 5 April 1992Sue Lawley
Malcolm Muggeridge
How Malcolm Muggeridge learned in the Soviet Union that power cannot make men good
Castaway · 19 September 1981Roy Plomley

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

John Curry on winning the Hop, Skip and a Jump Competition

Castaway · 12 February 1977Roy Plomley

15°06′S 150°35′W

Barry Tuckwell

How Barry Tuckwell joined the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as third horn at 15

Castaway · 5 February 1977Roy Plomley

John Julius Norwich

06°58′S 037°55′W

John Julius Norwich

John Julius Norwich on attending the Nuremberg trials as a schoolboy

Castaway · 18 October 1975Roy Plomley

Philip Hope-Wallace

03°08′S 143°10′W

Philip Hope-Wallace

How Philip Hope-Wallace was laughed at for naming Handel and Verdi as favourite composers at Oxford

Castaway · 30 March 1974Roy Plomley

08°38′S 167°37′W

Joseph Cooper

How keeping a dummy keyboard helped Joseph Cooper prepare for rescue

Castaway · 19 May 1973Roy Plomley