Notable Castaways
See also: List of Desert Island Discs episodesThe first castaway was Vic Oliver, and several castaways, including Arthur Askey, Kenneth Williams, Terry Wogan and Sir David Attenborough, have been cast away more than once. The most requested music over the first 60 years was "Ode to Joy", the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. One of the most remarked broadcasts was Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's 1958 selection of eight of her own recordings – something never repeated by any other castaway.
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