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desert island

noun

  1. a small remote tropical island

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The guitarist also chooses Brian Eno's ambient classic Music For Airports as one of his Desert Island Albums.

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He told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs he later agreed to both, working either end of the day and travelling between them by motorcycle.

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Music at the funeral will include Ave Verum Corpus by Mozart, which was selected by the duchess as her favourite piece when she was a guest on the BBC's Desert Island Discs in 1990.

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Music will include "Ave verum corpus" by Mozart, which was selected by the duchess as her favourite piece when she was a guest on the BBC's Desert Island Discs in 1989.

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Her tastes were eclectic - picking Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus as her favourite piece on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs - but also later speaking of her liking for gangsta rap.

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