Antonio Carlos Jobim — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Antonio Carlos Jobim — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Antonio Carlos Jobim

15 episodes

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15

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2000s

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Eleanor Bron
Fenella Fielding
Fleur Cowles
Graham Kerr
Jackie Collins
Jilly Cooper
Lewis Gilbert
Nick Danziger
Sacha Distel
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Sir Geoffrey Jackson
Sir Martin Sorrell

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Barbara Hulanicki on never saying goodbye to her father
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Sir Martin Sorrell
Martin Sorrell on the near-collapse of WPP in 1991
Castaway · 4 December 2011Kirsty Young

desert is.land

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

The listing

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Most requested
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Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

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Jackie Collins

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Graham Kerr

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Eleanor Bron

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