George Melly

Tuning in…

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

George Melly — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

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Total castaways

1980s

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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

How a poem got Beryl Bainbridge expelled from school

Castaway · 9 March 1986Michael Parkinson