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Composer
36 episodes
Chosen over the decades
36
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
7
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Tony Iveson on shaking the hand of the German fighter pilot who could have killed him
Raymond Gubbay on the moment his father got him involved in Mozart's Il Seraglio
James Dyson on welding a giant cyclone and racing home to rip the bag off his vacuum cleaner
Bill Bryson on waking up in New Hampshire and realising his return to America was a catastrophe
Jack Rosenthal on the game of Consequences that exposed his wartime landlady
John Smith on being told he was fine before collapsing with a heart attack
Joanna Lumley on being sent to boarding school where she could be 'bad solidly for three months'
Robin Hanbury-Tenison on spending three months alone in a small boat in the rainforest
Patricia Ruanne on hiding behind a character to overcome performance nerves
Catherine Bramwell-Booth on marching cadets into the Silver Town explosion
Isaac Stern on the friend who inspired his violin playing – and now sells insurance