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Desert Island Discs

Heard
2016
Episodes
1
Language
English

Desert Island Discs is a long-running radio show devised in the 1940s by Roy Plomley.

More about it

Each week Roy interviewed a celebrity guest. The guest chose eight records of music that he would like to take along if he was cast away on a desert island.

Each show theoretically consisted half of the guest talking about his life and career, and half of the guest playing his chosen records.

However, some of the shows are 45 minutes long, and they generally contain more of the chosen musical pieces. Those shows which are only 30 minutes long tend to contain just brief excerpts from the eight records chosen.

Good quality recordings. Includes some in Broadcast Quality at 320 Kbps.

Copyright Expired Recordings

The 50 year period of broadcast copyright under section 14(2) of the UK's Copyright Act 1956 (www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1956/74/section/14/enacted) has expired for all items included in this collection first broadcast more than 50 years ago.

Additionally, the 50 year period of broadcast copyright under section 14(2) of the UK's Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/14) has also expired for all items included in this collection first broadcast more than 50 years ago.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. This week's guest Tallulah Bankhead (Extract)

    · 4:33

Where it comes from 1

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Desert Island Discs

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

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