Gone with the Wind

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

Gone with the Wind — Book · desert is.land

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5 episodes

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1970s

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Dr Ruth Westheimer
Dr Ruth Westheimer on waving goodbye to her mother from a train in 1939
Castaway · 16 September 1990Sue Lawley
Johnny Mathis
How a doctor secretly gave Johnny Mathis amphetamines
Castaway · 8 March 1987Michael Parkinson

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

Mirella Freni on being 'brother in milk' with Luciano Pavarotti

Castaway · 11 June 1977Roy Plomley

09°34′S 050°37′W

Beverly Sills on cutting up a costume to get it made silver

Castaway · 18 November 1972Roy Plomley

18°51′S 093°58′W

Harry Carpenter on deciding to avoid his father's fish business

Castaway · 26 September 1970Roy Plomley