Owen Brannigan

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“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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Transmission

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

Owen Brannigan — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately on considering a singing career while busking
Castaway · 15 September 1996Sue Lawley
David Penhaligon
David Penhaligon on being the star defence witness at a murder trial
Castaway · 22 March 1987Michael Parkinson

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

William Whitelaw on acting as a bouncer at Churchill's Cambridge speech

Castaway · 6 June 1981Roy Plomley

14°35′S 050°10′W

Shinwell on the generals who threatened to resign when he arrived at the War Office

Castaway · 20 May 1978Roy Plomley

04°55′S 123°08′W

Wee Georgie Wood on the penny thrown at his first show

Castaway · 6 November 1961Roy Plomley