Gheorghe Zamfir

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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

Gheorghe Zamfir — Artist · desert is.land

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4 episodes

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1970s

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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 six-pound weekly budget sent James Cameron to France

Castaway · 5 May 1979Roy Plomley

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Clare Francis on sleeping only one hour at a time to watch for ships

Castaway · 9 July 1977Roy Plomley