Webster Booth

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

Webster Booth — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Rosina Harrison
Rosina Harrison on catching a fish she never got to eat
Castaway · 20 March 1976Roy Plomley
Noel Streatfeild
How a flash of inspiration at the Barrier Reef made Noel Streatfeild a novelist
Castaway · 17 January 1976Roy Plomley
Percy Press

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 a window display inspired Percy Press to modernise Punch and Judy

Castaway · 28 December 1974Roy Plomley

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W E Shewell-Cooper on pressing his first flower book at age five

Castaway · 10 April 1965Roy Plomley