Charles Ives

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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

Charles Ives — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Mark Rylance
Mark Rylance on a Broadmoor patient telling him 'I believe you'
Castaway · 15 February 2015Kirsty Young
Joanna MacGregor
Joanna MacGregor on the shock of being told what to think when she first went to school
Castaway · 1 June 1997Sue Lawley
Peter Jonas

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

Peter Jonas on growing fond of the hospital that treated his cancer

Castaway · 8 July 1990Sue Lawley

10°55′S 100°50′W

Carlo Curley on his first public performance with billiard chalk on his hands

Castaway · 18 September 1982Roy Plomley

19°55′S 153°22′W

Norman Parkinson on moving to a desert island to be well rehearsed

Castaway · 30 December 1978Roy Plomley