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25 episodes
Chosen over the decades
25
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
7
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
How the deaths of both parents in a few weeks left Oliver Postgate in charge of the real world
Thomas Armstrong on singing for Queen Alexandra as a nine-year-old chorister
Gordon Beningfield on getting down on his hands and knees to see a butterfly's landscape
Julian Lloyd Webber on choosing the cello to get out of practising the piano
Robin Richmond on putting his name down as an organ student to avoid punishment
Mel Torme on how 'Mountain Greenery' became a UK number one after being cut from a film
Peter Pears on his first concert with Benjamin Britten for Spanish Republican funds
Gladys Cooper on pretending to be Mary Hennessy to get her first stage role
Christopher Stone on topping the bill at the Palladium playing the gramophone