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453 episodes
Chosen over the decades
448
Total castaways
1990s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
David Dimbleby on receiving letters that say his father would be ashamed of him
How keeping a dummy keyboard helped Joseph Cooper prepare for rescue
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 Jackson on singing at full blast to survive solitary confinement
Alfred Brendel on being forced to remove his tails after a piano stool mishap
Val Doonican on asking the BBC head of Light Music for a radio series with no work lined up
How Fyfe Robertson cooked his age by three years to become a senior reporter with a motorbike
Peter Pears on his first concert with Benjamin Britten for Spanish Republican funds
How a quiet Sherlock Holmes trip to Switzerland became a world story for Paul Gore-Booth
How walking down the main street of Chipping Camden taught Gordon Russell more than school
Jon Vickers on the ball he bounced on a nail that his father thought he'd broken on purpose
Jacques Loussier on leaving the Conservatoire because of twenty prize winners each year
Denis Matthews on first hearing Bach's St Matthew Passion at school in 1933
Margot Fonteyn on seeing her first ballet at the Camargo Society aged 12
George Thalben-Ball on accidentally triggering every organ effect during the national anthem
John Osborne on how Laurence Olivier jokingly asked for a part in The Entertainer