Bryan Ferry

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

Bryan Ferry — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

5 episodes

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2000s

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Nigel Slater

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

Nigel Slater on how unwrapping a chocolate flake unlocked childhood memories

Castaway · 5 June 2005Sue Lawley

06°43′S 036°17′W

Duncan Goodhew on losing his hair after an eighteen-foot fall

Castaway · 7 June 1992Sue Lawley

01°30′S 069°00′W

Roger Vadim on sending the wrong child to the wrong mother

Castaway · 27 July 1986Michael Parkinson