NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini

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desert is.land

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

NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini — Artist · desert is.land

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How Anna Moffo went from Little Miss Muffet to overnight star
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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

Lotte Lehmann on being frightened to death of Toscanini

Castaway · 22 June 1959Roy Plomley

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Alfredo Campoli on performing 100 concerts for wounded soldiers at age nine

Castaway · 21 August 1953Roy Plomley