Chess computer

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

Chess computer — Luxury · desert is.land

Luxury

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Rt Hon Robin Cook MP
Robin Cook on abandoning academia after a colleague's thesis on Victorian sanitation
Castaway · 3 November 2002Sue Lawley
Terry Waite
How hearing a lift led to Terry Waite's capture
Castaway · 21 June 1992Sue Lawley
Roger Vadim

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

Roger Vadim on sending the wrong child to the wrong mother

Castaway · 27 July 1986Michael Parkinson