Robert Tear

Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1970-1986 by BBC

May 31, 198023:15Society & Culture

Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Robert Tear. Favourite track: Concerto For Double String Orchestra by Michael Tippett Book: The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts Luxury: Postcards of paintings with poems on the back

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