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124 episodes
Chosen over the decades
124
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
David Attenborough on predicting horseshoe crabs breeding in Chesapeake Bay
Benjamin Luxon on being called to tour Russia with the English Opera Group
How 'Can't we try a little longer?' made Patricia Batty Shaw WI secretary
Lennox Berkeley on Nadia Boulanger showing him what was missing in his music
Marisa Robles on winning a radio competition at nine only to have her bicycle prize taken away
Michael Holroyd on arguing so persuasively his father told him to profit from it
How treading on a lady’s foot ended Malcolm Williamson’s conducting career
Jacob Bronowski on telling the BBC he didn't mean to make a science series like Kenneth Clark's
Peter Pears on his first concert with Benjamin Britten for Spanish Republican funds
Earl of Harewood on reading Grove's musical dictionary up to the letter S as a POW
Leslie Baily on persuading Marconi to recount his first transatlantic wireless signal
Jimmy Edwards on the bandsmen who sat in the cricket pavilion during OTC parades