Mozart

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

Mozart — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1960s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Professor Barry Cunliffe
Barry Cunliffe on how a young excavator’s neat cut uncovered a Roman inscription in Bath
Castaway · 19 August 1972Roy Plomley
Elizabeth Harwood
Elizabeth Harwood on telling Sir Malcolm Sargent she would sing with him one day
Castaway · 18 March 1972Roy Plomley

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

Edward Downes on prompting Maria Callas in her debut

Castaway · 17 February 1969Roy Plomley

19°31′S 163°05′W

Anatole de Grunwald on reading for pleasure, not for film inspiration

Castaway · 29 March 1965Roy Plomley