Henri Duparc

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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

Henri Duparc — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

3 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1950s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

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Lotte Lehmann
Lotte Lehmann on being frightened to death of Toscanini
Castaway · 22 June 1959Roy 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

Kirsten Flagstad on using her reading spectacles as a burning glass

Castaway · 29 April 1952Roy Plomley