Émile Waldteufel

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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

Émile Waldteufel — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

3 episodes

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1980s

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Kitty Godfree

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

Kitty Godfree on cycling from Holland to Berlin aged nine

Castaway · 6 September 1987Michael Parkinson