Maurice Ravel

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

Maurice Ravel — Artist · desert is.land

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5 episodes

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1950s

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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

Roy Strong on buying a long-lost portrait of Milton for £22

Castaway · 7 March 1970Roy Plomley

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Alfred Hitchcock on describing Psycho as 'a rather gentle horror picture'

Castaway · 19 October 1959Roy Plomley

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How caricaturing the principal got Gerard Hoffnung expelled from art school

Castaway · 14 January 1957Roy Plomley