Yvonne Printemps

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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

Yvonne Printemps — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1960s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Baroness Trumpington
How the crown jewels could rescue Baroness Trumpington
Castaway · 25 November 1990Sue Lawley
Dirk Bogarde
How Dirk Bogarde used a cloth cap to hide from his eye phobia
Castaway · 5 January 1990Sue Lawley

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

Alice Delysia on the scandalous costume that got her in trouble with the censor

Castaway · 12 February 1972Roy Plomley

06°45′S 130°32′W

Fenella Fielding on being taken away from RADA by her parents

Castaway · 5 June 1967Roy Plomley

11°52′S 029°40′W

Dirk Bogarde on his first job cleaning the gentleman's lavatory at Kew Theatre

Castaway · 28 September 1964Roy Plomley