Johann Strauss II

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

Johann Strauss II — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

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1970s

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Bruce Tulloh
Bruce Tulloh on getting the idea to run across America from the Guinness Book of Records
Castaway · 23 November 1974Roy Plomley
Professor Sir Alister Hardy FRS
Alister Hardy on his theory that humans evolved from apes in the sea
Castaway · 27 October 1973Roy 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

Roy Strong on buying a long-lost portrait of Milton for £22

Castaway · 7 March 1970Roy Plomley

23°09′S 101°48′W

How King George VI asked Ambrose for an encore of the Blue Danube

Castaway · 2 August 1965Roy Plomley