Minnie Riperton

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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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Transmission

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

Minnie Riperton — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2020s

Peak decade

Decades seen

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Ade Adepitan

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

Ade Adepitan on crawling up a volcano in Nicaragua

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Rod Hull on the emu egg that grew bigger every day

Castaway · 9 April 1977Roy Plomley