Meade Lux Lewis

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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

Meade Lux Lewis — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

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Total castaways

1970s

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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

Burl Ives on singing hymns on pitch at the family pump organ

Castaway · 31 March 1979Roy Plomley