Bleak House

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

Bleak House — Book · desert is.land

Book

3 episodes

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Total castaways

1980s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Harry Enfield
Harry Enfield on bitterly resenting his father for picking him up from parties
Castaway · 18 May 1997Sue Lawley
Jonathon Porritt
Jonathon Porritt on being taken aback by Mrs Thatcher's environmental speech
Castaway · 11 June 1989Sue Lawley
Julian Symons

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

Julian Symons on being unable to find Middle C after seven years of piano lessons

Castaway · 15 May 1982Roy Plomley