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282 episodes
Chosen over the decades
282
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
John Julius Norwich on attending the Nuremberg trials as a schoolboy
How Philip Hope-Wallace was laughed at for naming Handel and Verdi as favourite composers at Oxford
Jacob Bronowski on telling the BBC he didn't mean to make a science series like Kenneth Clark's
Anthony Lawrence on being told the only way to be a journalist is to be one
Alec Robertson on his mother's singing lesson that ended with 'never come back'
Geoffrey Parsons on his childhood Saturday mornings of music lessons and clean sheets
Geoffrey Jackson on singing at full blast to survive solitary confinement
Isaac Stern on the friend who inspired his violin playing – and now sells insurance
Alfred Brendel on being forced to remove his tails after a piano stool mishap
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
Julian Bream on his first professional engagement at a Russian prince's party
Claudio Arrau on teaching himself to read music before he could read words at age four
George Thalben-Ball on accidentally triggering every organ effect during the national anthem