Smetana Quartet

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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

Smetana Quartet — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Lord May
Robert May on not seeing his father since the age of 17
Castaway · 3 March 2002Sue Lawley
Sir John Sulston
John Sulston on holding the human genome on a CD-ROM
Castaway · 13 May 2001Sue Lawley
David Pountney

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

David Pountney on hearing Fidelio from a barn crossbeam at age five

Castaway · 22 February 1998Sue Lawley

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Anthony Minghella on sending actors home from Italy

Castaway · 9 November 1997Sue Lawley