Fred Fisher

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“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

Fred Fisher — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

5 episodes

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Total castaways

1980s

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Decades seen

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Dennis Potter

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

Dennis Potter on his father asking 'Is that all right, Obat?'

Castaway · 21 February 1988Michael Parkinson

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David Wilson on taking his coat off at his British Museum interview

Castaway · 13 July 1986Michael Parkinson

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Robert Dougall on watching wax models writhe in a fire during the Blitz

Castaway · 8 January 1977Roy Plomley