Cole Porter

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Cole Porter — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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1960s

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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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Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Elspeth Huxley on not hearing proper music until she was eighteen

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Alan Jay Lerner

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Maggie Fitzgibbon on being discovered while singing under the shower

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A G Street on writing his first article with a stump of pencil while recovering from influenza

Castaway · 17 December 1962Roy Plomley

Sir Aaron Klug

Simon Schama

Elspeth Huxley

Alan Jay Lerner

Michael Parkinson

Maggie Fitzgibbon

A G Street