Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Composer · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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desert is.landest. 1942

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Composer

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

164 episodes

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162

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Alan Pascoe
Alec Robertson
Alfred Eisenstadt
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Al Read
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Anatole de Grunwald
Andrew Neil
Anna Moffo
Ann Daniels
Anthony Grey
Antonio Carluccio
Arthur Askey
Arthur English
Arthur Hailey
Arthur Scargill
Ben Travers
Betty Driver
Bobby Robson
Bransby Williams
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Anatole de Grunwald

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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

Find a castaway
Most requested
Browse the archive
About

Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
Report a fault

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

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Leslie Baily

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Sir Arthur Bryant

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Alicia Markova

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Castaway · 22 September 1958Roy Plomley

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Agnes Nicholls

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Castaway · 19 May 1958Roy Plomley

Bransby Williams

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Margaret Lockwood

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