Faust

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

Faust — Book · desert is.land

Book

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1950s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Lord Roll
Eric Roll on the only time he saw his father cry
Castaway · 26 August 2001Sue Lawley
Philip Hope-Wallace
How Philip Hope-Wallace was laughed at for naming Handel and Verdi as favourite composers at Oxford
Castaway · 30 March 1974Roy Plomley
Lilli Palmer

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

Castaway · 20 June 1966Roy Plomley

05°34′S 024°40′W

Lotte Lehmann on being frightened to death of Toscanini

Castaway · 22 June 1959Roy Plomley