The Clerks of Oxenford

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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

The Clerks of Oxenford — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decade seen

Castaways who chose this

Mary Archer
Mary Archer on teaching through her premature labour
Castaway · 17 April 1988Michael Parkinson
Jane Glover
Jane Glover on her childhood ambition to be a policewoman
Castaway · 30 March 1986Michael Parkinson

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

Lyall Watson on speaking forty different kinds of monkey fluently

Castaway · 24 July 1982Roy Plomley

05°30′S 065°05′W

Mark Elder on picking up a bassoon the wrong way round

Castaway · 8 November 1980Roy Plomley