Charles Dibdin

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

Charles Dibdin — Composer · desert is.land

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5 episodes

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1980s

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Sir Peter Pears

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

Peter Pears on scoring 81 not out at the Oval as a young cricketer

Castaway · 11 June 1983Roy Plomley

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P D James on starting her first novel by getting up early in her late thirties

Castaway · 20 November 1982Roy Plomley

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How Charles Causley wrote poetry in his head while serving in the Navy

Castaway · 1 December 1979Roy Plomley