Olivier Messiaen

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

Olivier Messiaen — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

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Ed McBain
Ed McBain on using a typewriter with only capital letters in the Navy
Castaway · 23 June 1979Roy Plomley
Noel Rawsthorne

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

Noel Rawsthorne on the organ that had no ignition key in Russia

Castaway · 30 December 1972Roy Plomley