Samuel Sebastian Wesley

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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

Samuel Sebastian Wesley — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Sir Thomas Armstrong
Thomas Armstrong on singing for Queen Alexandra as a nine-year-old chorister
Castaway · 16 July 1989Sue Lawley
Sir William Walton
William Walton on choristers threatening to quit over Belshazzar's Feast
Castaway · 27 March 1982Roy Plomley

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

Christopher Milne on the weekly moment his singing voice dominated in chapel

Castaway · 13 November 1976Roy Plomley