Theme from Lawrence of Arabia — Maurice Jarre — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Theme from Lawrence of Arabia — Maurice Jarre — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Theme from Lawrence of Arabia — Maurice Jarre

5 episodes

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Dick Francis
John Ridgway
Lt-Colonel John Blashford-Snell
Paul Greengrass
Richard Leakey

Paul Greengrass
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Dick Francis
Dick Francis on the heartbreaking collapse of Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National
Castaway · 13 December 1998Sue 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
Browse the archive
About

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

John Ridgway on seeing his friend's face in a child he adopted

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Richard Leakey

Richard Leakey on his father’s view of him as useless hands

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Lt-Colonel John Blashford-Snell

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Lt-Colonel John Blashford-Snell

John Blashford-Snell on forming a private army at 14 to defend Herefordshire

Castaway · 30 October 1976Roy Plomley