Maggie Teyte — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Maggie Teyte — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Maggie Teyte

8 episodes

Chosen over the decades

8

Total castaways

1960s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Alvar Lidell
Bamber Gascoigne
Clive James
Dame Maggie Teyte
Felix Aprahamian
George Baker
Kirsten Flagstad
Wilfrid Brambell

Felix Aprahamian
Felix Aprahamian on the piano blunder that taught him critical wisdom
Castaway · 19 March 1995Sue Lawley
Bamber Gascoigne
Bamber Gascoigne on the paralysing boredom that made him give up acting
Castaway · 1 November 1987Michael Parkinson

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Clive James on losing his only letter of introduction and ten pounds in London

Castaway · 14 June 1980Roy Plomley

02°27′S 069°22′W

Alvar Lidell

Alvar Lidell on handling the abdication document for broadcast

Castaway · 5 May 1969Roy Plomley

Dame Maggie Teyte

01°36′S 073°03′W

Dame Maggie Teyte

Maggie Teyte on being told she was forgotten in America

Castaway · 15 April 1968Roy Plomley

08°10′S 154°57′W

George Baker

George Baker on taking to the piano like a duck to water

Castaway · 5 April 1965Roy Plomley

Wilfrid Brambell

20°31′S 031°35′W

Wilfrid Brambell

Wilfrid Brambell on entertaining wounded soldiers at age two and a half

Castaway · 30 March 1964Roy Plomley

Kirsten Flagstad

02°30′S 073°18′W

Kirsten Flagstad

Kirsten Flagstad on using her reading spectacles as a burning glass

Castaway · 29 April 1952Roy Plomley