John Field

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

John Field — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Paddy Moloney
Paddy Moloney on composing on sick bags during long flights
Castaway · 11 July 1999Sue Lawley
Sir Denis Forman
How a shell landed twice in the same place wounded Denis Forman
Castaway · 3 March 1991Sue Lawley
Seamus Heaney

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

Seamus Heaney on reading 'View of a Pig' in the Belfast Public Library

Castaway · 19 November 1989Sue Lawley