Mi chiamano Mimì (La Bohème) — Giacomo Puccini — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Mi chiamano Mimì (La Bohème) — Giacomo Puccini — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Song

Mi chiamano Mimì (La Bohème) — Giacomo Puccini

11 episodes

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Abi Morgan
Agnes Nicholls
Derek Jameson
Edna O'Brien
Helena Kennedy QC
Leslie Caron
Patricia Greene
Patricia Hayes
Ronnie Scott
Rosamond Lehmann
Viscount Rothermere

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Leslie Caron
Leslie Caron on her grandfather crying when war broke out
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Abi Morgan

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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