Hungarian String Quartet

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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

Hungarian String Quartet — Artist · desert is.land

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3 episodes

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1980s

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Castaway · 25 March 2007Kirsty 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

Peter Maxwell Davies on being taken to see The Gondoliers at age four

Castaway · 25 June 1983Roy Plomley