Lotte Lehmann

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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

Lotte Lehmann — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Christabel Bielenberg
Christabel Bielenberg on ringing the Gestapo and demanding they turn off the lights
Castaway · 8 November 1992Sue Lawley
Elly Ameling
Elly Ameling on Pierre Bernac’s cocker spaniel face
Castaway · 9 February 1985Roy Plomley

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

Maria Von Trapp on being born on a train with the conductor as midwife

Castaway · 15 January 1983Roy Plomley

15°40′S 156°29′W

Eva Turner on hearing Il Trovatore and knowing she would sing opera

Castaway · 6 March 1982Roy Plomley

23°53′S 112°33′W

Robert Mayer on his first children's concert in 1923

Castaway · 2 June 1979Roy Plomley