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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

Wings — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Duke Of Westminster
How learning he would inherit the family estate made the Duke of Westminster want to run for the door
Castaway · 2 July 1995Sue Lawley
Mark McCormack
Mark McCormack on being hit by a car at six and taking up golf
Castaway · 2 July 1989Sue Lawley
John Ridgway

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

John Ridgway on seeing his friend's face in a child he adopted

Castaway · 23 November 1986Michael Parkinson

02°54′S 123°56′W

Tim Severin on the bump in the night when his ship hit something

Castaway · 29 January 1983Roy Plomley

09°01′S 030°06′W

Mary Martin on the ghastly sound of her childhood violin

Castaway · 26 March 1977Roy Plomley