Boris Godunov — Modest Mussorgsky — Song

desert is.landest. 1942

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Boris Godunov — Modest Mussorgsky — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Song

Boris Godunov — Modest Mussorgsky

11 episodes

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Alice Delysia
Benno Moiseiwitsch
Boris Christoff
Edward Downes
Leonide Massine
Lord Weidenfeld
Luise Rainer
Mirella Freni
Sir Isaiah Berlin
Vlado Perlemuter
Wilfred Thesiger

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Sir Isaiah Berlin
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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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Broadcasting since 1942
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An unofficial archive companion
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Lord Weidenfeld

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Vlado Perlemuter

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Wilfred Thesiger

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Leonide Massine

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Edward Downes

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