Guarneri Quartet

Tuning in…

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

Guarneri Quartet — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

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1970s

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John Laurie

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 John Laurie was carried from Passchendale on a stretcher, unwounded

Castaway · 15 May 1976Roy Plomley