Fyodor Chaliapin

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desert is.land

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

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

Fyodor Chaliapin — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

3 episodes

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1980s

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Vlado Perlemuter
Vlado Perlemuter on improvising piano for silent films
Castaway · 14 July 1984Roy Plomley
Stewart Granger

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

Stewart Granger on the guilt of surviving his battalion's annihilation

Castaway · 25 April 1981Roy Plomley