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606 episodes
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606
Total castaways
1990s
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How seeing herself in Rotten to the Core left Charlotte Rampling in tears
Luciano Pavarotti on not being able to imagine himself alone for more than a day
Margaret Price on quarrelling with James Lockhart at her Covent Garden audition
Bruce Tulloh on getting the idea to run across America from the Guinness Book of Records
David Dimbleby on receiving letters that say his father would be ashamed of him
Jacob Bronowski on telling the BBC he didn't mean to make a science series like Kenneth Clark's
Barry Cunliffe on how a young excavator’s neat cut uncovered a Roman inscription in Bath
Elizabeth Harwood on telling Sir Malcolm Sargent she would sing with him one day
Stuart Burrows on Stravinsky asking him to sing Oedipus after a BBC broadcast
Alfred Brendel on being forced to remove his tails after a piano stool mishap
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
Denis Brogan on writing a letter while answering a Round Britain Quiz question
Earl of Harewood on reading Grove's musical dictionary up to the letter S as a POW
Margot Fonteyn on seeing her first ballet at the Camargo Society aged 12
Julian Bream on his first professional engagement at a Russian prince's party