Neal Hefti

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

Neal Hefti — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Jonathan Lynn
How writers failing to deliver a script led Jonathan Lynn to write his first TV episode
Castaway · 20 October 1984Roy Plomley
Buddy Rich
How a UFO buzzed Buddy Rich's car at 4am
Castaway · 9 May 1981Roy Plomley
Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais

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

Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais on meeting at The Uxbridge Arms and playing hearts

Castaway · 21 July 1979Roy Plomley

12°32′S 103°25′W

Ian Carmichael on his first role as a robot

Castaway · 9 June 1979Roy Plomley