Come Hither

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

Come Hither — Book · desert is.land

Book

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1960s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Alice Thomas Ellis
Alice Thomas Ellis on adopting a pen name to roar anonymously
Castaway · 29 March 1998Sue Lawley
Joseph Cooper
How keeping a dummy keyboard helped Joseph Cooper prepare for rescue
Castaway · 19 May 1973Roy Plomley
Leslie Baily

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

Leslie Baily on persuading Marconi to recount his first transatlantic wireless signal

Castaway · 13 January 1964Roy Plomley