Max Bygraves

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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

Max Bygraves — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

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Total castaways

1970s

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Decades seen

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How Katharine Hamnett wore a political T-shirt to meet Margaret Thatcher
Castaway · 21 May 1989Sue Lawley

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

John Napier on his mother forbidding him from becoming an actor

Castaway · 8 May 1976Roy Plomley

10°02′S 018°45′W

Graham Kerr on causing 17 questions in Parliament

Castaway · 4 December 1971Roy Plomley

06°07′S 037°46′W

Emlyn Williams on choosing eerie opening chords with producer Miles Mallison

Castaway · 7 June 1955Roy Plomley