Charlie Chaplin

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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

Charlie Chaplin — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Willard White
Willard White on saying Othello's first line fifty three different ways
Castaway · 7 November 1999Sue Lawley
Rt Hon John Biffen MP
How National Service tore John Biffen from the security of the family farm
Castaway · 25 March 1990Sue Lawley
Leslie Grantham

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 Grantham on buying cat food for a cat he didn't have

Castaway · 9 April 1989Sue Lawley

21°26′S 031°55′W

Sandy Powell on the accidental origin of 'Can you hear me, Mother?'

Castaway · 25 November 1968Roy Plomley