Dory Previn

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

Dory Previn — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Ralph Koltai
How a badly painted sign led Ralph Koltai to art school
Castaway · 23 August 1998Sue Lawley
Rt. Hon. Nigel Lawson
Nigel Lawson on switching from maths at Oxford before he was found out
Castaway · 3 December 1989Sue Lawley
Neil Kinnock

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

Neil Kinnock on his mother dying of a broken heart

Castaway · 1 May 1988Michael Parkinson

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Sue Lawley on being called the kind of girl you'd take home to mum

Castaway · 8 November 1987Michael Parkinson