Jerry Gray

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

Jerry Gray — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

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P D James on narrating her own life from childhood
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Helen Bamber
Helen Bamber on finding survivors clinging to her at Belsen
Castaway · 2 May 1999Sue Lawley

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

Margaret Tebbit on kicking her husband

Castaway · 31 December 1995Sue Lawley

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Mel Torme on how 'Mountain Greenery' became a UK number one after being cut from a film

Castaway · 24 July 1976Roy Plomley