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485 episodes
Adelaide Hall on the countermelody that made her the voice of 'I Can't Give You Anything But Love'
Peter Townsend on taking seven days to cover 24 miles in the Burmese jungle
Anthony Lawrence on being told the only way to be a journalist is to be one
Barry Cunliffe on how a young excavator’s neat cut uncovered a Roman inscription in Bath
Francis Camps on examining the shirt Charles I wore when he was beheaded
Alec Robertson on his mother's singing lesson that ended with 'never come back'
Geoffrey Parsons on his childhood Saturday mornings of music lessons and clean sheets
Elizabeth Jane Howard on learning about war from a photograph of her father's dead comrades
Wendy Hiller on managing two large parts with only six rehearsals and one dress rehearsal
Geoffrey Jackson on singing at full blast to survive solitary confinement
Elizabeth Harwood on telling Sir Malcolm Sargent she would sing with him one day
Hammond Innes on writing Attack Alarm on a gun site during the Battle of Britain
Michael Parkinson on learning nothing about bottles and a lot about women
Alice Delysia on the scandalous costume that got her in trouble with the censor
Stuart Burrows on Stravinsky asking him to sing Oedipus after a BBC broadcast
Isaac Stern on the friend who inspired his violin playing – and now sells insurance
How David Frost appeared between Jack Benny and Barbara Streisand at a Sinatra farewell
Julia Trevelyan Oman on finding chicken bones while designing Brief Lives
Alfred Brendel on being forced to remove his tails after a piano stool mishap