Rutland Boughton

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

Rutland Boughton — Composer · desert is.land

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4 episodes

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1960s

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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

How a flash of inspiration at the Barrier Reef made Noel Streatfeild a novelist

Castaway · 17 January 1976Roy Plomley

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Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies on working with Thomas Hardy on the 'Tess' script

Castaway · 8 October 1962Roy Plomley