Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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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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Transmission

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

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

4 episodes

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1980s

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Sir Alfred Ayer

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 saying ‘we’ led Alfred Ayer to resist Hitler

Castaway · 28 July 1984Roy Plomley

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Stanley Holloway on his first job taking his boss's head to be ironed

Castaway · 25 October 1975Roy Plomley