Edward German

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

Edward German — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Arthur Hailey
Arthur Hailey on his mother making up stories to tell him as a boy
Castaway · 6 April 1986Michael Parkinson
Frances Perry
Frances Perry on falling headfirst into a tub of liquid manure at 18 months
Castaway · 22 March 1980Roy Plomley

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

George MacDonald Fraser on the waterfall accident that helped him finish Flashman

Castaway · 18 March 1978Roy Plomley

18°21′S 132°43′W

Alec Rose on the soul-destroying whine of rigging

Castaway · 7 April 1969Roy Plomley