A Tale of Two Cities

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“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 Tale of Two Cities — Book · desert is.land

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3 episodes

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1990s

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Professor Tim Spector
Tim Spector on the helicopter crash that caught fire
Castaway · 31 March 2024Lauren Laverne
Hugh Bonneville
Hugh Bonneville on discovering his mother worked for MI6
Castaway · 28 February 2016Kirsty Young
Richard Dreyfuss

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 waking up under a car ended Richard Dreyfuss's drug habit

Castaway · 9 May 1999Sue Lawley