Mabel Mercer

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

Mabel Mercer — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Elisabeth Welch
Elisabeth Welch on being given Love for Sale by Peggy Hopkins Joyce
Castaway · 18 November 1990Sue Lawley
Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce on being stopped in the corridor at RADA
Castaway · 20 May 1990Sue 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

David Hare on writing a play in four days after a playwright let him down

Castaway · 26 February 1989Sue Lawley

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How a Christmas lunch revealed Roy Hattersley's father was a priest

Castaway · 26 January 1986Michael Parkinson