Guy Wolfenden

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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

Guy Wolfenden — 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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Sir Trevor Nunn
Trevor Nunn on the fragment about Grizabella that inspired the song Memory
Castaway · 26 January 2003Sue Lawley
Alan Howard

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

Alan Howard on the superstition about quoting Macbeth in a dressing room

Castaway · 5 December 1981Roy Plomley

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Gillian Lynne on deciding to sing as well as dance after seeing South Pacific

Castaway · 11 July 1981Roy Plomley