François Couperin

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

François Couperin — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer on changing a tyre in four minutes flat
Castaway · 30 October 1988Michael Parkinson
Gerald Priestland
Gerald Priestland on being sent away to boarding school at the age of seven
Castaway · 3 March 1984Roy 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

John Fowles on his plan for a Robinson Crusoe who dreads being rescued

Castaway · 10 January 1981Roy Plomley

02°42′S 156°47′W

Clifford Curzon on his first paid performance in a freezing Kennington church

Castaway · 17 June 1978Roy Plomley