Habanera (Carmen) — Georges Bizet — Song

desert is.landest. 1942

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Habanera (Carmen) — Georges Bizet — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Song

Habanera (Carmen) — Georges Bizet

11 episodes

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Isabel Allende
Jane Somerville
Lady Mosley
Martina Navratilova
Maureen Lipman
Nico Ladenis
Rocco Forte
Salman Rushdie
Sir Robin Day
Sir Terry Leahy
Victoria de los Angeles

Jane Somerville
Jane Somerville on burning her husband’s shirt to avoid ironing
Castaway · 7 July 2013Kirsty Young
Sir Terry Leahy
Terry Leahy on being the class clown at school
Castaway · 3 February 2013Kirsty Young

desert is.land

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

The listing

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Most requested
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Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
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

Martina Navratilova

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Castaway · 8 July 2012Kirsty Young

Nico Ladenis

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Nico Ladenis

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Castaway · 23 February 1997Sue Lawley

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende on her family playing the roles from The House of the Spirits

Castaway · 12 September 1993Sue Lawley

Sir Robin Day

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Sir Robin Day

Robin Day on the time he thought he would be arrested for making an interruption

Castaway · 21 January 1990Sue Lawley

Lady Mosley

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Lady Mosley

Diana Mosley on missing three and a half years of her children's lives in prison

Castaway · 26 November 1989Sue Lawley

Rocco Forte

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Rocco Forte

Rocco Forte on throwing down his sabre and quitting fencing forever

Castaway · 5 February 1989Sue Lawley

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie on the triple whammy of being bad at games, good at studies, and foreign

Castaway · 18 September 1988Michael Parkinson

Maureen Lipman

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Maureen Lipman

How Maureen Lipman started acting as the placenta hit the pedal bin

Castaway · 19 January 1986Michael Parkinson

Victoria de los Angeles

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Victoria de los Angeles

Victoria de los Angeles on her father convincing a priest to combine her mother's and uncle's names

Castaway · 3 June 1978Roy Plomley