Margaret Price

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

Margaret Price — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1970s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively on being told by her publisher she hadn't won the Booker Prize
Castaway · 17 September 1989Sue Lawley
Jack Brymer
Jack Brymer on the phone call that opened with ‘Mister Brimer, I believe you play the clarionet’
Castaway · 26 May 1979Roy 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

Margaret Price on quarrelling with James Lockhart at her Covent Garden audition

Castaway · 13 December 1975Roy Plomley