A Dance to the Music of Time

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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

A Dance to the Music of Time — Book · desert is.land

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4 episodes

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1980s

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Tim Martin
Tim Martin on his failed attempt to become a world champion squash player
Castaway · 3 December 2017Kirsty Young
Ian Rankin
How climbing into the attic helped Ian Rankin write an angry novel
Castaway · 16 July 2006Sue 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

How a phone call to a Dallas DJ made John Peel a surrogate Beatle

Castaway · 14 January 1990Sue Lawley

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Joanna Lumley on being sent to boarding school where she could be 'bad solidly for three months'

Castaway · 13 September 1987Michael Parkinson