Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars

9 episodes

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1980s

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6

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John Wain
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John Fortune on the English master who changed his life by reading T.S. Eliot
Castaway · 12 December 2004Sue Lawley

desert is.land

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

The listing

Find a castaway
Most requested
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Transmission

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

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Richard Noble on seeing John Cobb's Crusader as a boy

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Arthur Scargill on learning sign language in three weeks down the pit

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Tom Keating

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John Wain

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Jack de Manio

Jack de Manio on winning a music prize for pretending to play the piano

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