Ruth Etting

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

Ruth Etting — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

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Twiggy on being called Styx before becoming Twiggy
Castaway · 8 January 1989Sue Lawley

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

Bamber Gascoigne on the paralysing boredom that made him give up acting

Castaway · 1 November 1987Michael Parkinson