Isobel Baillie

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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

Isobel Baillie — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

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1980s

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Castaways who chose this

Beryl Reid
How dyslexia forced Beryl Reid to work twenty times harder
Castaway · 5 February 1983Roy Plomley
Dorothy Dunnett
How running out of historical novels led Dorothy Dunnett to write her own
Castaway · 24 April 1982Roy Plomley

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

Fay Weldon on writing a television play while waiting for her second son to be born

Castaway · 23 February 1980Roy Plomley

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Ronnie Corbett on his first job issuing animal feed coupons

Castaway · 29 May 1971Roy Plomley