Bobby Short

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

Bobby Short — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

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Total castaways

1990s

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Decades seen

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Nina Campbell

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

Nina Campbell on not being able to make a pair of curtains

Castaway · 16 March 1997Sue Lawley