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42 episodes
Chosen over the decades
42
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
7
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Robert Hardy on how dissatisfaction with himself led him to acting
How the Vienna Philharmonic apologised to Roger Norrington for their vibrato
George Lloyd on surviving a shipwreck that drowned his comrades in thick black oil
John Eliot Gardiner on his zany pilgrimage route from Samarkand to Seville
Nicholas Snowman on his Cambridge sadness that music might not exist anymore
Bamber Gascoigne on the paralysing boredom that made him give up acting
Stan Barstow on the moment a book by H.E. Bates showed him what to write about
How a tip-off about concentration camps sent Shirley Williams to America
Michael Tippett on serving two months in prison as a conscientious objector
Christopher Leaver on his earliest memory of a ship's cabin flooding
Neville Marriner on lining up children against each other at competitive music festivals
Jack Brymer on the phone call that opened with ‘Mister Brimer, I believe you play the clarionet’
Alice Delysia on the scandalous costume that got her in trouble with the censor
Margot Fonteyn on seeing her first ballet at the Camargo Society aged 12