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Composer
506 episodes
Chosen over the decades
503
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Leo McKern on receiving the Rumpole script out of the blue
Christopher Reeve on his first stage role as a boy soprano in Gilbert and Sullivan
Elwyn-Jones on the emotional ordeal of reading the death sentence in court
Princess Michael of Kent on having a cat in her pocket when she was rescued
Ranulph Fiennes on the moment he saw the ship's masts after three years
Cindy Buxton and Annie Price on how Annie thought the Falkland Islands were in Scotland
How picking up a girl at a dance hall led Frederick Gibberd to his first design
Peter Maxwell Davies on being taken to see The Gondoliers at age four
Alan King-Hamilton on nearly swooning when he mistook a VC for a KC
Douglas Reeman on getting his best friend to swim for him in a full duck uniform
Gwyneth Jones on her father dying two hours before her scholarship acceptance letter arrived
Duchess of Devonshire on never wanting to see another firework
Christopher Leaver on his earliest memory of a ship's cabin flooding
Frankie Howerd on making up Bible stories as a Sunday school teacher aged 13
Earl of Harewood on worrying his royal bargaining power as a POW was a bluff
How Malcolm Muggeridge learned in the Soviet Union that power cannot make men good
Julian Lloyd Webber on choosing the cello to get out of practising the piano
How Churchill introduced Fitzroy MacLean as a young man who made a public convenience of Parliament
Frederic Raphael on having to explain why a character is named Martha not Georgina