Ritual Dances (The Midsummer Marriage) — Sir Michael Tippett

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

Ritual Dances (The Midsummer Marriage) — Sir Michael Tippett — Song · desert is.land

Song

3 episodes

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David Lloyd Jones
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Castaway · 2 October 1982Roy Plomley
Gillian Lynne

desert is.land

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

The listing

Transmission

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

Gillian Lynne on deciding to sing as well as dance after seeing South Pacific

Castaway · 11 July 1981Roy Plomley