Jerry Herman

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desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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

Jerry Herman — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1990s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Anne Reid
Anne Reid on crying in the hedge while caring for her family
Castaway · 13 July 2014Kirsty Young
Bruce Forsyth
How driving round the block three times helped Bruce Forsyth enter the London Palladium
Castaway · 1 December 1996Sue Lawley
Jocelyn Stevens

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

How Jocelyn Stevens's father saw him as the murderer of his mother

Castaway · 8 March 1992Sue Lawley

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Catherine Cookson on the schoolyard fall that made her grow up

Castaway · 8 September 1984Roy Plomley

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Dirk Bogarde on his first job cleaning the gentleman's lavatory at Kew Theatre

Castaway · 28 September 1964Roy Plomley