Fritz Kreisler

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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

Fritz Kreisler — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1950s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Celia Imrie
Celia Imrie on being told she was too big for ballet at age 11
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Salvatore Accardo
Salvatore Accardo on learning to read music before he could read print
Castaway · 26 April 1980Roy Plomley
Tommy Reilly

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

Tommy Reilly on getting harmonicas from a German welfare officer in a prison camp

Castaway · 2 October 1961Roy Plomley

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Malcolm Sargent on being stranded on a Pacific island after a plane crash

Castaway · 28 April 1955Roy Plomley