Hank Williams

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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

Hank Williams — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

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Total castaways

2000s

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Decades seen

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Castaway · 25 October 2015Kirsty 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

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Alan Yentob on his mother's objection to the term 'immigrant family'

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