Jimmy Shand

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

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

Jimmy Shand — Artist · desert is.land

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4 episodes

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1960s

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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

Bill Simpson on cycling home at 2am to milk 60 cows after a country dance

Castaway · 30 May 1966Roy Plomley

11°02′S 176°12′W

How the general strike brought Jimmy Shand out of the mines

Castaway · 1 January 1966Roy Plomley