Erroll Garner

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

Erroll Garner — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

5 episodes

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Total castaways

1980s

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Ernie Wise
Ernie Wise on becoming a headline act overnight aged 12
Castaway · 21 October 1990Sue Lawley
Jacques Loussier
Jacques Loussier on instantly understanding piano at his first sitting
Castaway · 27 September 1987Michael Parkinson
Virginia Holgate

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

Virginia Holgate on her mother's ultimatum: eat or stop riding

Castaway · 10 August 1986Michael Parkinson

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How a schoolboy letter helped Kenneth Macmillan get into ballet school

Castaway · 5 March 1983Roy Plomley

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David Jacobs on the screw points that ruined his perfect cupboard mirror

Castaway · 25 May 1964Roy Plomley