Maurizio Pollini — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Maurizio Pollini — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Maurizio Pollini

8 episodes

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8

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2000s

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3

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Anthony Julius
Cormac Murphy O'Connor
Elijah Moshinsky
Nicholas Snowman
Renee Fleming
Rob Delaney
Thomas Quasthoff

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Rob Delaney on meeting his wife while caring for a 17-year-old girl with cerebral palsy
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Anthony Julius
Anthony Julius on telling Princess Diana he had never done a divorce case
Castaway · 13 November 2009Kirsty Young

desert is.land

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

The listing

Find a castaway
Most requested
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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

Thomas Quasthoff

Thomas Quasthoff on being found singing melodies before he could talk

Castaway · 1 February 2009Kirsty Young

17°45′S 070°17′W

Renee Fleming

Renee Fleming on meeting Placido Domingo for the first time mid-scene

Castaway · 18 November 2005Sue Lawley

18°10′S 090°17′W

Ann Leslie

Ann Leslie on deciding not to die in hospital for her family's sake

Castaway · 7 November 2004Sue Lawley

Cormac Murphy O'Connor

02°33′S 028°46′W

Cormac Murphy O'Connor

Cormac Murphy O'Connor on waking up at three in the morning and wondering if it's all true

Castaway · 22 July 2001Sue Lawley

Elijah Moshinsky

19°01′S 112°21′W

Elijah Moshinsky

Elijah Moshinsky on the night people walked out of his play because the theatre had no centre aisle

Castaway · 28 February 1993Sue Lawley

Nicholas Snowman

06°09′S 083°33′W

Nicholas Snowman

Nicholas Snowman on his Cambridge sadness that music might not exist anymore

Castaway · 28 October 1990Sue Lawley