The Creation — Joseph Haydn — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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The Creation — Joseph Haydn — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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The Creation — Joseph Haydn

6 episodes

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Diana Athill
Dr Steve Jones
Luise Rainer
Madame Stiles-Allen (Lilian)
Robert Winston
Sir Frank Kermode

Diana Athill
Diana Athill on discovering the facts of life at age 11 in a book by Mary Stopes
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Luise Rainer
Luise Rainer on surviving on apples and eggs after leaving home
Castaway · 28 March 1999Sue Lawley
Sir Frank Kermode

desert is.land

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

The listing

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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

Frank Kermode on dealing with the madness of captains during the war

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Robert Winston

Robert Winston on being a real Luddite when IVF first began

Castaway · 8 December 1996Sue Lawley

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Dr Steve Jones

Steve Jones on the schoolteacher Mr Simpson who inspired him at age 13

Castaway · 1 March 1992Sue Lawley

Madame Stiles-Allen (Lilian)

14°50′S 104°01′W

Madame (Lilian) Stiles-Allen

How a levitating feeling during a BBC broadcast told Stiles-Allen of Chaliapin's death

Castaway · 23 January 1971Roy Plomley