Writing materials (paper and pen) — Luxury · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Writing materials (paper and pen) — Luxury · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Luxury

Writing materials (paper and pen)

2 episodes

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2

Total castaways

1980s

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1

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Claudio Abbado
Hugh Johnson

Hugh Johnson
How not finding a book about trees led Hugh Johnson to write one
Castaway · 12 May 1984Roy Plomley
Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado on deciding to become a conductor at age seven after hearing his first concert at La Scala
Castaway · 9 February 1980Roy Plomley

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

The listing

Find a castaway
Most requested
Browse the archive
About

Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
Report a fault

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