Members of the Vienna Octet

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

Members of the Vienna Octet — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

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Raymond Seitz on the bartender more astonished than him by a White House call
Castaway · 17 October 1993Sue Lawley
Vlado Perlemuter

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

Vlado Perlemuter on improvising piano for silent films

Castaway · 14 July 1984Roy Plomley

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Susannah York on getting her first laugh in a school play aged nine

Castaway · 1 March 1980Roy Plomley