Tosca — Giacomo Puccini — Song

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Tosca — Giacomo Puccini — Song · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Song

Tosca — Giacomo Puccini

8 episodes

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Andrea Newman
Antonio Pappano
Cathy Berberian
Celia Imrie
Godfrey Talbot
Marguerite Wolff
Sebastian Coe
Sir Timothy Clifford

Celia Imrie
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Castaway · 13 February 2011Kirsty Young
Antonio Pappano
Antonio Pappano on the baton that flew out of his hand during Pagliacci
Castaway · 25 April 2004Sue Lawley

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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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

Marguerite Wolff

Marguerite Wolff on seeing girls swinging tennis rackets and feeling wistful

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Sir Timothy Clifford

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Sir Timothy Clifford

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Sebastian Coe

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Sebastian Coe

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Andrea Newman

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Andrea Newman

Andrea Newman on the joy of her first civil service payday

Castaway · 27 September 1980Roy Plomley

Cathy Berberian

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Cathy Berberian

Cathy Berberian on singing baritone, bass and coloratura as a child because nobody told her she couldn't

Castaway · 16 September 1978Roy Plomley

Godfrey Talbot

23°47′S 044°00′W

Godfrey Talbot

How a tank cut Godfrey Talbot's cable during a desert broadcast

Castaway · 29 August 1960Roy Plomley

Celia Imrie

Antonio Pappano

Sir Timothy Clifford

Sebastian Coe

Andrea Newman

Cathy Berberian

Godfrey Talbot