Darius Milhaud

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“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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Transmission

Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Darius Milhaud — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

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Castaway · 3 January 1999Sue Lawley
Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood on being branded a sex maniac at the age of four
Castaway · 28 June 1992Sue Lawley

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

Erich Segal on being the fortieth writer on Yellow Submarine

Castaway · 19 April 1980Roy Plomley

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Anthony Powell on cleaning ink pots in a publisher's office where convicts were better treated

Castaway · 16 October 1976Roy Plomley

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How playing the piano saved Dave Brubeck from the front line

Castaway · 12 October 1959Roy Plomley