Hollywood String Quartet

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

Hollywood String Quartet — Artist · desert is.land

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4 episodes

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2000s

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Randy Newman
Randy Newman on receiving a death threat over 'Short People'
Castaway · 19 October 2008Kirsty Young
Penelope Wilton
Penelope Wilton on the warm air from a pantomime stage that made her want to act
Castaway · 30 March 2008Kirsty Young

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

Leonard Slatkin on becoming an English major after his father's death

Castaway · 23 April 2000Sue Lawley

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David Hare on writing a play in four days after a playwright let him down

Castaway · 26 February 1989Sue Lawley