Sonny Rollins

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“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

Sonny Rollins — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1960s

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Decades seen

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John Surman

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 Surman on choosing the baritone sax because it cost the same as an alto

Castaway · 6 October 1984Roy Plomley

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How missing D-Day almost made Norman Mailer weep for a lost novel

Castaway · 15 December 1979Roy Plomley

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Marty Feldman on firing arrows into a fake Red Indian's stomach

Castaway · 23 September 1968Roy Plomley