Paul Hindemith

Tuning in…

desert is.land

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

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Transmission

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

Paul Hindemith — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

4 episodes

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2000s

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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

Paul Tortelier on preferring marbles to the cello as a child

Castaway · 31 March 1984Roy Plomley

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Leonide Massine on promising Diaghilev a hundred ballets

Castaway · 22 April 1972Roy Plomley