It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) — Duke Ellington

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

It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) — Duke Ellington — Song · desert is.land

Song

5 episodes

Castaways who chose this

Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop on deciding to become a conductor aged nine after seeing Leonard Bernstein conduct
Castaway · 28 September 2014Kirsty Young
Raja Shehadeh
Raja Shehadeh on the military governor calling his father to warn him about his activism
Castaway · 15 June 2014Kirsty Young