Coffee machine

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

Coffee machine — Luxury · desert is.land

Luxury

4 episodes

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2010s

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Castaways who chose this

Jimmy Carr
How Jimmy Carr went from not reading until age 10 to Cambridge
Castaway · 5 March 2017Kirsty Young
Rt Hon Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon on being in floods of tears after the independence referendum
Castaway · 15 November 2015Kirsty Young

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

Jonas Kaufmann on conquering his stage fright to become a stage monster

Castaway · 22 February 2015Kirsty Young

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Brian Cox on wanting his grandfather to see him at Buckingham Palace

Castaway · 30 December 2011Kirsty Young