Aquarius — Galt MacDermot — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Aquarius — Galt MacDermot — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Song

Aquarius — Galt MacDermot

5 episodes

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Ed Mirvish (Honest)
Nicholas Parsons
Nyree Dawn Porter
Oliver Ford
Prue Leith

Nicholas Parsons
Nicholas Parsons on his mother's fear that show business would deprave him
Castaway · 4 November 2007Kirsty Young
Prue Leith
Prue Leith on catering from a bedsitter with lobsters on the dressing table
Castaway · 6 May 1990Sue Lawley

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
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Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

'Honest' Ed Mirvish

Ed Mirvish on buying a theatre 3,000 miles away sight unseen

Castaway · 24 March 1984Roy Plomley

18°02′S 056°30′W

Oliver Ford

Oliver Ford on finding himself in the middle of a minefield

Castaway · 5 March 1977Roy Plomley

Nyree Dawn Porter

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Nyree Dawn Porter

Nyree Dawn Porter on changing the spelling of her Maori name from Ngaire

Castaway · 28 March 1970Roy Plomley