Hoagy Carmichael — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Hoagy Carmichael — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Hoagy Carmichael

8 episodes

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8

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1990s

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4

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Julia McKenzie
Liz Lochhead
Peter Nichols
Raymond Briggs
Sir Robin Day
Virginia Ironside
Willy Russell

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Peter Nichols

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Peter Nichols on his brother asking him to disguise the family more

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Virginia Ironside

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Virginia Ironside

Virginia Ironside on regularly waking up screaming and calling the Samaritans

Castaway · 30 March 1997Sue Lawley

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Willy Russell

Willy Russell on the woman who told him the same story every week for two years

Castaway · 23 January 1994Sue Lawley

21°15′S 019°56′W

Sir Robin Day

Robin Day on the time he thought he would be arrested for making an interruption

Castaway · 21 January 1990Sue Lawley

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Raymond Briggs

Raymond Briggs on an art school principal scoffing at his cartoonist dream

Castaway · 4 June 1983Roy Plomley

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Julia McKenzie

Julia McKenzie on her first job as an understudy after only seeing the show three times

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