The Canterbury Tales

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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

The Canterbury Tales — Book · desert is.land

Book

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1960s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Howard Brenton
Howard Brenton on the scene that outraged Mary Whitehouse
Castaway · 19 July 1998Sue Lawley
Kate Adie
Kate Adie on the Empire disappearing before she could marry a missionary
Castaway · 15 May 1994Sue Lawley
David Frost

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

David Frost on his childhood terror of missionaries because of leprosy

Castaway · 15 April 1963Roy Plomley

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Castaway · 25 January 1960Roy Plomley