The Ink Spots

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“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 Ink Spots — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Sir Ken Adam
Ken Adam on a boy shouting 'Jubo' and learning he was Jewish
Castaway · 23 May 2004Sue Lawley
Milton Shulman
Milton Shulman on how hay fever stopped him from becoming a crooner
Castaway · 5 June 1994Sue Lawley
Gerald Scarfe

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

How Gerald Scarfe couldn't draw what he saw in Vietnam

Castaway · 12 March 1989Sue Lawley

16°52′S 067°05′W

How a poem got Beryl Bainbridge expelled from school

Castaway · 9 March 1986Michael Parkinson

20°18′S 046°21′W

How seeing Ibsen's Ghosts moved Tennessee Williams out of his seat

Castaway · 9 September 1978Roy Plomley