Hallelujah Chorus (Messiah) — George Frideric Handel — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Hallelujah Chorus (Messiah) — George Frideric Handel — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Hallelujah Chorus (Messiah) — George Frideric Handel

22 episodes

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Gorden Kaye
Jane Lapotaire
Jenny Sealey
June Spencer
Keith Waterhouse
Lavinia Young
Lord Ashley
Paul Gambaccini
Professor Nick Webborn
Rt Hon. George Thomas
Rt. Hon. Michael Heseltine
Sir Bernard Ingham
Sir Richard Sykes
Tristan Jones

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

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