Stubby Kaye and Johnny Silver

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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

Stubby Kaye and Johnny Silver — Artist · desert is.land

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1980s

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Keith Waterhouse

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

Keith Waterhouse on being beckoned into Alfred Hitchcock's presence to polish dialogue

Castaway · 30 July 1983Roy Plomley