Eddie Cochran

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

Eddie Cochran — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

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1980s

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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

David Penhaligon on being the star defence witness at a murder trial

Castaway · 22 March 1987Michael Parkinson

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James Herbert on the review that said his first book belonged in the garbage

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Harvey Smith on his first success in a novice competition at Nelson

Castaway · 13 February 1971Roy Plomley