Orlando Gibbons

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“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

Orlando Gibbons — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Eileen Atkins
Eileen Atkins on the gipsy who predicted she would be a great dancer
Castaway · 29 November 1998Sue Lawley
Mary Archer
Mary Archer on teaching through her premature labour
Castaway · 17 April 1988Michael Parkinson

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

Mark Elder on picking up a bassoon the wrong way round

Castaway · 8 November 1980Roy Plomley

08°04′S 131°14′W

Elizabeth Longford on discovering that Queen Victoria and Albert had furious rows

Castaway · 11 August 1979Roy Plomley

19°21′S 001°13′W

How writing a poem on a window led Laurence Whistler to glass engraving

Castaway · 10 July 1971Roy Plomley