Matt Monro

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

Matt Monro — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

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Gregory Doran on finding the 229th copy of Shakespeare's First Folio
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Virginia McKenna
Virginia McKenna on her father keeping a snake called George and two bush babies
Castaway · 26 September 2004Sue 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

Peggy Mount on being told she had a character face

Castaway · 9 June 1996Sue Lawley

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Don Black on seeing The Jolson Story 32 times as a child

Castaway · 22 October 1995Sue Lawley