Ethel Waters

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

Ethel Waters — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

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Total castaways

1950s

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Decades seen

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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

John Osborne on how Laurence Olivier jokingly asked for a part in The Entertainer

Castaway · 19 January 1959Roy Plomley