Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

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

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Book · desert is.land

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5 episodes

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1970s

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Castaways who chose this

Wayne Marshall
Wayne Marshall on a Dublin concert where his organ's memory was wiped
Castaway · 21 April 2002Sue Lawley
Sir Peter Hall
How teaching economics in the RAF taught Peter Hall to direct
Castaway · 12 November 1983Roy Plomley
Sir Christopher Leaver

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

Christopher Leaver on his earliest memory of a ship's cabin flooding

Castaway · 13 February 1982Roy Plomley

02°27′S 159°43′W

James Blades on singing Ding boom boom boom to join the cathedral choir

Castaway · 15 January 1977Roy Plomley

21°41′S 002°58′W

How a murder trial at the Old Bailey in 1918 led Edward Robey to the law

Castaway · 13 October 1973Roy Plomley