Richard Rodney Bennett

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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Richard Rodney Bennett — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

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Decades seen

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Castaway · 30 June 2002Sue Lawley
John Harle

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 Harle on the relief and freedom of switching from clarinet to saxophone

Castaway · 24 May 1998Sue Lawley

08°19′S 053°36′W

How Pierre Boulez took Richard Rodney Bennett apart

Castaway · 19 October 1997Sue Lawley

19°55′S 070°20′W

John Schlesinger on his father's question about the Jewish character in Sunday Bloody Sunday

Castaway · 13 October 1991Sue Lawley