Herb Alpert

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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

Herb Alpert — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

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 shoveling coal made a man of George Cole

Castaway · 4 September 1976Roy Plomley