Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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

Jonathan Livingston Seagull — Book · desert is.land

Book

5 episodes

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2010s

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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

Julie Goodyear on learning her son was saving pocket money for a dad

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David Hempleman Adams on using a Margaret Thatcher book as toilet paper

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How Colette Besson denied Lillian Board Olympic gold

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