Rudolf Serkin

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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

Rudolf Serkin — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Sir Ernst Gombrich
Ernst Gombrich on dictating The Story of Art without a draft
Castaway · 5 April 1992Sue Lawley
Michael Elkins
Michael Elkins on smuggling surplus weapons for the Haganah
Castaway · 16 February 1985Roy 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

Gyorgy Ligeti on how Stanley Kubrick used his music without permission

Castaway · 18 December 1982Roy Plomley

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John Mills on selling lavatory paper while secretly taking tap dancing lessons

Castaway · 22 December 1973Roy Plomley