Ernesto De Curtis

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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

Ernesto De Curtis — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

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Joan Collins on fingerprinting her family as a wannabe detective
Castaway · 25 June 1989Sue Lawley
Alfred Wainwright
Alfred Wainwright on his wife walking out and taking the dog
Castaway · 4 September 1988Michael Parkinson

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

Lew Grade on landing Bob Hope without a contract

Castaway · 13 December 1987Michael Parkinson

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Giovanni Martinelli on his bandmaster discovering his voice in the army

Castaway · 18 June 1962Roy Plomley