Seán Ó Riada

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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

Seán Ó Riada — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Jude Kelly
Jude Kelly on making up plays in the back garden as a child
Castaway · 5 May 2002Sue Lawley
John Simpson
John Simpson on crying at the release of Nelson Mandela
Castaway · 19 May 1991Sue Lawley
Brian Keenan

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

Brian Keenan on driving his fellow hostage insane with his unmelodic singing

Castaway · 23 December 1990Sue Lawley

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Michael Bogdanov on how a friend's letter to Trinity College Dublin earned him a place

Castaway · 19 April 1987Michael Parkinson