Ron Goodwin and His Orchestra

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

Ron Goodwin and His Orchestra — Artist · desert is.land

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5 episodes

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1970s

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Leslie Grantham on buying cat food for a cat he didn't have
Castaway · 9 April 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

Brendan Foster on breaking the world record at the opening of Gateshead Stadium

Castaway · 13 March 1988Michael Parkinson

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John Blashford-Snell on forming a private army at 14 to defend Herefordshire

Castaway · 30 October 1976Roy Plomley

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How a biography of Charles Dickens led Emlyn Williams to create a one-man show

Castaway · 15 February 1975Roy Plomley