Central Band of the Royal Air Force

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desert is.land

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Transmission

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

Central Band of the Royal Air Force — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Emma Bridgewater
Emma Bridgewater on the blackbird singing as her mother died
Castaway · 27 November 2016Kirsty Young
Lord Stevens
John Stevens on dealing with a fatally burnt man during his first weeks on the beat
Castaway · 17 November 2006Kirsty Young
Richard Noble

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

Richard Noble on seeing John Cobb's Crusader as a boy

Castaway · 15 February 1998Sue Lawley

09°51′S 093°30′W

Norman Tebbit on the moment the Brighton bomb brought down his hotel room

Castaway · 29 November 1992Sue Lawley

18°02′S 056°30′W

Oliver Ford on finding himself in the middle of a minefield

Castaway · 5 March 1977Roy Plomley