Tuning in…
Tuning in…
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Castaways who chose this
Hilary McGrady on a custodian who lifted a pipe bomb from a National Trust house
Sue Biggs on receiving a packet of seeds for her seventh birthday
Virginia McKenna on her father keeping a snake called George and two bush babies
Cicely Saunders on the patient who thanked her for telling him he was dying
How a blind date at a university ball led Sybil Marshall to the love of her life
Robert Runcie on turning back to rescue a crewmate from a burning tank
John Osborne on how a press officer coined the ‘angry young man’ label in a pub
Barry Cunliffe on how a young excavator’s neat cut uncovered a Roman inscription in Bath
How walking down the main street of Chipping Camden taught Gordon Russell more than school
Leslie Illingworth on opening his father's bound volumes of Punch
A G Street on writing his first article with a stump of pencil while recovering from influenza