Modern Jazz Quartet — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Modern Jazz Quartet — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Modern Jazz Quartet

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

5

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Harry Belafonte
Jacques Loussier
Janet Street-Porter
John Eliot Gardiner
Roger Vadim

Janet Street-Porter
Janet Street-Porter on her childhood fantasy of being a swapped baby
Castaway · 23 November 2008Kirsty Young
John Eliot Gardiner
John Eliot Gardiner on his zany pilgrimage route from Samarkand to Seville
Castaway · 22 November 1992Sue Lawley

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
Browse the archive
About

Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
Report a fault

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

Jacques Loussier

Jacques Loussier on instantly understanding piano at his first sitting

Castaway · 27 September 1987Michael Parkinson

01°30′S 069°00′W

Roger Vadim

Roger Vadim on sending the wrong child to the wrong mother

Castaway · 27 July 1986Michael Parkinson

Harry Belafonte

20°56′S 022°45′W

Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte on his childhood dream of becoming a jockey

Castaway · 6 October 1958Roy Plomley