E lucevan le stelle (Tosca) — Giacomo Puccini — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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E lucevan le stelle (Tosca) — Giacomo Puccini — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Song

E lucevan le stelle (Tosca) — Giacomo Puccini

14 episodes

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Alison Steadman
Derek Jameson
HRH Princess Michael of Kent
June Spencer
Lucy Gannon
Ralph Kohn
Rita Hunter
Robert Burchfield
Roger Waters
Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP
Sir Stanley Kalms
Sir Terry Wogan
Sir William Walton
Vincent Price

June Spencer
June Spencer on climbing to the highest point of a desert island to shout Hallelujah
Castaway · 22 December 2024Lauren Laverne
Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP
How a sudden break of sun among pine trees in a Citroën made Eric Pickles perfectly happy
Castaway · 9 December 2012Kirsty Young

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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