Narciso Yepes

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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

Narciso Yepes — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Penelope Leach
Penelope Leach on the music that saved her sanity one spring
Castaway · 13 September 1992Sue Lawley
Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon on painting scenery after walking past a theatre
Castaway · 24 April 1988Michael Parkinson
James Mason

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

James Mason on his shame at wanting to be an international star

Castaway · 26 September 1981Roy Plomley

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Marie Collier on replacing Maria Callas in Tosca at short notice

Castaway · 21 February 1966Roy Plomley