Chris Rea

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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

Chris Rea — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

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Decades seen

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Frank Bruno

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

Frank Bruno on crying like a big baby at boarding school

Castaway · 6 June 1993Sue Lawley

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Duncan Goodhew on losing his hair after an eighteen-foot fall

Castaway · 7 June 1992Sue Lawley