Burning Spear

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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

Burning Spear — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

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Decades seen

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Baaba Maal
Baaba Maal on promising his father he would make songs for the old
Castaway · 15 March 2009Kirsty Young

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

Benjamin Zephaniah on writing his first book when he could hardly read or write

Castaway · 8 June 1997Sue Lawley