Gundula Janowitz

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

Gundula Janowitz — Artist · desert is.land

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2000s

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Castaway · 26 October 2008Kirsty Young

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

Posy Simmonds on starting to draw as soon as she could hold a pencil

Castaway · 29 June 2008Kirsty Young

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How two breakdowns forced Mary O'Hara to leave the monastery

Castaway · 7 February 1981Roy Plomley

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Kenneth McKellar on leaving forestry for a singing scholarship at the Royal College of Music

Castaway · 1 January 1977Roy Plomley