Robert Shaw Chorale

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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

Robert Shaw Chorale — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Irene Thomas
Irene Thomas on being dismissed as a 'jamped up chorus girl' by Round Britain Quiz
Castaway · 26 January 1997Sue Lawley
General H Norman Schwarzkopf
Norman Schwarzkopf on his five-year-old son's drawing of a general
Castaway · 1 November 1992Sue Lawley
Irene Thomas

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

Irene Thomas on being rejected by the Welsh quiz team

Castaway · 16 June 1979Roy Plomley

17°50′S 123°33′W

Hephzibah Menuhin on dreading a desert island without people

Castaway · 25 August 1958Roy Plomley