Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli

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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

Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli — Artist · desert is.land

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5 episodes

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1970s

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Bernard Delfont on turning down the Beatles
Castaway · 10 November 1991Sue Lawley
David Scott Blackhall

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

David Scott Blackhall on the pub outing that showed him people don't speak to the blind

Castaway · 26 July 1980Roy Plomley

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Alan Gemmell on how his mother declared him a botanist after a neighbour's suggestion

Castaway · 12 November 1977Roy Plomley

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Julia Foster on winning a poetry competition at Brighton Dome aged 13

Castaway · 3 January 1976Roy Plomley