Gregorian chant

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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

Gregorian chant — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

3 episodes

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1970s

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Edmund Rubbra
Edmund Rubbra on ‘knitting’ his music instead of writing it
Castaway · 23 May 1981Roy Plomley

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

Franco Zeffirelli on being discovered by ballet critic Richard Buckle

Castaway · 7 January 1978Roy Plomley