Sena Jurinac

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desert is.land

“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

Sena Jurinac — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1970s

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George Christie on his son asking to see a hostess's opera house
Castaway · 16 October 1994Sue Lawley
Sir John Pritchard

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

John Pritchard on being summoned from the sea to conduct Don Giovanni

Castaway · 16 July 1983Roy Plomley

04°33′S 155°17′W

How failing exams led John Wain to Oxford on his father's money

Castaway · 4 November 1978Roy Plomley