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35 episodes
Chosen over the decades
35
Total castaways
1990s
Peak decade
5
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Gillian Clarke on saying no to becoming National Poet of Wales
David Almond on being called an overnight success after twenty years of writing
Marianne Faithfull on the Redlands drug bust she believes was an MI5 set-up
How playing the Mozart clarinet quintet helped Alan Hacker recover from paralysis
Frances Partridge on losing her faith in a seaside boarding house aged 11
John Eliot Gardiner on his zany pilgrimage route from Samarkand to Seville
Anthony Rolfe Johnson on being told he was in the wrong job by a singing teacher
Michael Tilson Thomas on being told to put his suit on and conduct mid-concert
Claus Moser on watching Hitler's torchlight procession from his window
Michael Tippett on serving two months in prison as a conscientious objector
Peter Maxwell Davies on being taken to see The Gondoliers at age four
Gwyneth Jones on her father dying two hours before her scholarship acceptance letter arrived
Frederic Raphael on having to explain why a character is named Martha not Georgina
Cathy Berberian on singing baritone, bass and coloratura as a child because nobody told her she couldn't