Telephone

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

Telephone — Luxury · desert is.land

Luxury

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Rt Hon David Mellor MP
How Margaret Thatcher told David Mellor he'd never make a living at the Chancery Bar
Castaway · 26 July 1992Sue Lawley
Lulu
Lulu on singing from a golden coach during the Queen's Coronation
Castaway · 4 October 1987Michael Parkinson
Alison Lurie

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

How writing a memoir after a friend's death helped Alison Lurie get published

Castaway · 9 March 1985Roy Plomley

23°04′S 052°24′W

Gloria Swanson on being fired by Charlie Chaplin

Castaway · 4 July 1981Roy Plomley

10°50′S 096°11′W

Nana Mouskouri on the blow-up with her professor over jazz

Castaway · 24 February 1979Roy Plomley