Ray Henderson

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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

Ray Henderson — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

4 episodes

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Total castaways

1980s

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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

Bamber Gascoigne on the paralysing boredom that made him give up acting

Castaway · 1 November 1987Michael Parkinson

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John Hackett on escaping German-occupied Holland in a canoe at dawn

Castaway · 21 June 1980Roy Plomley