The Band of the Coldstream Guards

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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

The Band of the Coldstream Guards — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

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1960s

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Lady Margaret Tebbit
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Colonel A D Wintle

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

How a 13-day hunger strike led A D Wintle to demand dinner at seven

Castaway · 12 March 1962Roy Plomley