Karlheinz Stockhausen

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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

Karlheinz Stockhausen — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

3 episodes

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Total castaways

1990s

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Helen Bradley

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 Helen Bradley painted with a fish slice and a dinner plate

Castaway · 5 July 1975Roy Plomley