Stan Getz

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

Stan Getz — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1960s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Baroness Floella Benjamin
Floella Benjamin on the audition where her wig flew off
Castaway · 11 October 2020Lauren Laverne
Sacha Distel
Sacha Distel on playing the piano as police took his mother
Castaway · 15 February 2004Sue 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

David Hempleman Adams on using a Margaret Thatcher book as toilet paper

Castaway · 9 August 1998Sue Lawley

15°37′S 163°36′W

How Ronnie Scott chose a saxophone over an inflatable Faye Dunaway doll

Castaway · 31 January 1976Roy Plomley

05°36′S 062°00′W

Eleanor Bron on realising there was nothing on the other side of the wall

Castaway · 24 June 1968Roy Plomley