Daniel Barenboim and the English Chamber Orchestra

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

Daniel Barenboim and the English Chamber Orchestra — Artist · desert is.land

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Castaway · 2 December 1978Roy Plomley

desert is.land

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

The listing

Transmission

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

Oliver Millar on insisting the Bible must be the King James's version

Castaway · 4 June 1977Roy Plomley

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Philip Jones on writing tunes for brass instruments to attack boredom

Castaway · 26 June 1976Roy Plomley