Noel Gay

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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

Noel Gay — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

3 episodes

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1950s

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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

Lupino Lane on performing 63 traps in six minutes

Castaway · 30 December 1957Roy Plomley