Tino Rossi

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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

Tino Rossi — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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2000s

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Bill Simpson
Daniel Kahneman
Jan Pienkowski
Martin Shaw
Rt Hon. Denis Healey

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Jan Pienkowski

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

The listing

Find a castaway
Most requested
Browse the archive
About

Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
Report a fault

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

Jan Pienkowski on unwrapping a toy train and wanting his dad

Castaway · 18 October 2009Kirsty Young

Martin Shaw

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Martin Shaw on stopping drinking overnight after finding a spiritual path

Castaway · 21 June 2009Kirsty Young

Rt Hon. Denis Healey

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Denis Healey on inventing a welly box

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Bill Simpson

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Bill Simpson on cycling home at 2am to milk 60 cows after a country dance

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Daniel Kahneman

Anna Ford

Jan Pienkowski

Martin Shaw

Rt Hon. Denis Healey

Bill Simpson