People — Barbra Streisand — Song

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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People — Barbra Streisand — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Song

People — Barbra Streisand

7 episodes

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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

Jule Styne

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Anna Moffo

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Christopher Plummer

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Louis Armstrong

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Lord Delfont

Giuseppe Di Stefano

Anna Moffo

Douglas Fairbanks Jnr

Christopher Plummer

Louis Armstrong