Richard Harris

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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

Richard Harris — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

5 episodes

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Total castaways

1980s

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Monica Dolan on secretly withdrawing her university application
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Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge on being thrown out of school for illustrating a dirty rhyme
Castaway · 3 February 2008Kirsty Young

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

Peter Alliss on nearly killing someone in the RF regiment

Castaway · 29 March 1987Michael Parkinson

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How a poem got Beryl Bainbridge expelled from school

Castaway · 9 March 1986Michael Parkinson

17°55′S 029°58′W

How Colette Besson denied Lillian Board Olympic gold

Castaway · 29 November 1969Roy Plomley