Desiree Burch
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692 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 Jul
Desiree Burch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Any final thoughts?
That's really incredible.
What an amazing woman.
I mean, I...
She never called me and helped me out.
You're Dead to Me · Lena Horne: racism and resilience in the Golden Age of Hollywood · 20 Feb 2026
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Thanks so much for having me back, Greg.
It's so nice to be back and find out what the heck happened before.
Yeah, true.
Yes, he performed Being a Human just about.
So what comes to mind is Glinda the Good Witch from The Wiz.
Because I grew up, that was the Black Wizard of Oz that we grew up on in the 80s.
And so that sort of, I think, was my introduction to her.
And also seeing her perform on The Cosby Show, R.I.P.
Were my...
I'm just saying.
But those were my interactions with her.
And she kind of, I think, in my head, occupies a similar sort of like Harry Belafonte status of being a performer and an activist as well.
Yeah.
I mean, any number of things could have happened.
I mean, literally racism at every turn could have happened, but probably a war, I'm guessing, as well, because of the timing of it, if she was born in 1917.
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