Maurice Jarre

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desert is.land

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

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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Maurice Jarre — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren on her mother never knowing who she was
Castaway · 21 February 2021Lauren Laverne
Kitty Godfree
Kitty Godfree on cycling from Holland to Berlin aged nine
Castaway · 6 September 1987Michael Parkinson
Arthur Hailey

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

Arthur Hailey on his mother making up stories to tell him as a boy

Castaway · 6 April 1986Michael Parkinson

14°15′S 109°41′W

David Broome on first being lifted into the saddle aged two and a quarter

Castaway · 14 February 1981Roy Plomley

17°32′S 122°50′W

Christiaan Barnard on the loneliness after his first transplant patient died

Castaway · 17 April 1976Roy Plomley