Hallelujah — Leonard Cohen — Song · desert is.land

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Hallelujah — Leonard Cohen — Song · desert is.land

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Hallelujah — Leonard Cohen

8 episodes

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Armistead Maupin
Gillian Anderson
Jeremy Deller
Michael Bublé
Sigrid Rausing
Sir Trevor Nunn
Terence Stamp
Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma
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Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller on walking away from his Battle of Orgreave reenactment to buy a chocolate bar
Castaway · 6 January 2019Lauren Laverne

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
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Transmission

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

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Sir Trevor Nunn

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Gillian Anderson

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