Louis Prima

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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

Louis Prima — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

Decades seen

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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

Ed McBain on using a typewriter with only capital letters in the Navy

Castaway · 23 June 1979Roy Plomley

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Jack Parnell on the night Luciano Pavarotti stood in wearing jodhpurs

Castaway · 25 June 1977Roy Plomley