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453 episodes
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1990s
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How Osbert Lancaster timed his daily cartoons to the evening paper editions
Roald Dahl on being unable to turn off the light after reading Ambrose Bierce
David Attenborough on predicting horseshoe crabs breeding in Chesapeake Bay
Simon Rattle on the terrifying moment before his first rehearsal with an orchestra
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
Amadeus String Quartet on their debut concert that turned people away
How a last-minute casting for The Merry Wives of Windsor brought Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson together
Richard Adams on improvising Watership Down on a car journey to see Judi Dench's Viola
Deborah Kerr on her first film appearance ending up on the cutting room floor
Arthur C Clarke on building his own crystal set to listen to music as a youth
Egon Ronay on how a friend drinking a Russian commander under the table helped him leave Budapest
Kenneth McKellar on leaving forestry for a singing scholarship at the Royal College of Music
Stuart Blanch on being accepted at the first Church of England selection conference in Calcutta
Sherrill Milnes on building something substantial to escape a desert island