Aled Jones

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desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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

Aled Jones — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

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2000s

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Decades seen

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Bishop John Sentamu

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 Sentamu on reciting Psalms as guards went for lunch

Castaway · 22 June 2003Sue Lawley

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Peter Morris on his first kidney transplant operation on 29 January 1975

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Clarissa Dickson Wright on the carrots her father fed her, still with slugs on them

Castaway · 21 November 1999Sue Lawley