Frank Crumit

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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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Transmission

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

Frank Crumit — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

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Decades seen

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Richard Gregory

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

How a design flaw in his Flying Flea plane nearly killed Richard Gregory

Castaway · 4 April 1993Sue Lawley

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June Whitfield on corpsing with Eric Morecambe

Castaway · 29 April 1990Sue Lawley

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Douglas Bader on landing on one leg after his prosthetic came off during a parachute jump

Castaway · 28 November 1981Roy Plomley