The Oscar Peterson Trio

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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 Oscar Peterson Trio — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1960s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Paul Dacre
Paul Dacre on being pinned against a wall with guns in Belfast
Castaway · 25 January 2004Sue Lawley
Igor Aleksander
Igor Aleksander on being a Yugoslav refugee on the run from the Nazis
Castaway · 4 July 1999Sue Lawley
Wilbur Smith

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

Wilbur Smith on writing his first novel on government stationery

Castaway · 25 September 1982Roy Plomley

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David Frost on his childhood terror of missionaries because of leprosy

Castaway · 15 April 1963Roy Plomley