Space Oddity — David Bowie — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Space Oddity — David Bowie — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Space Oddity — David Bowie

5 episodes

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Annie Nightingale
Beryl Bainbridge
Marti Webb
N.Busch
Professor Baruch Blumberg

Annie Nightingale
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Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge on being thrown out of school for illustrating a dirty rhyme
Castaway · 3 February 2008Kirsty Young

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

Professor Baruch Blumberg

Baruch Blumberg on the three years it took to connect an Australian blood sample to hepatitis B

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N.Busch

Nicholas Busch on his childhood ambition to become a farmer

Castaway · 9 October 1982Roy Plomley

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Marti Webb

Marti Webb on how a friend’s suggestion led to her taking over as Evita

Castaway · 22 May 1982Roy Plomley