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Composer
144 episodes
Chosen over the decades
144
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Peter Hennessy on weeping as the Queen’s coffin passed the cenotaph
Averil Mansfield on repeatedly removing her toy panda's appendix
Marin Alsop on deciding to become a conductor aged nine after seeing Leonard Bernstein conduct
Sister Wendy Beckett on her father's return from war and her loss of status
How a 13-year-old drug runner brought his younger siblings to Camila Batmanghelidjh
Kristin Scott Thomas on pretending to be dead in a plane crash for a film role
John Mortimer on his blind father hiding in the herbaceous border from visitors
How a lie from his mother led Stephen Sondheim to live with his father at 15
How Jocelyn Bell Burnell learned at 18 months that men count and women don’t
How Christopher Lloyd replaced a Lutyens rose garden with bananas and palms
James Dyson on welding a giant cyclone and racing home to rip the bag off his vacuum cleaner
Martin Rees on how being bad at Greek and Latin steered him towards astronomy