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Competition

On the record

18 April 2015

9:00 AM

18 April 2015

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 2893 you were invited to suggest suitable Desert Island Discs for a historical figure, living or dead.

Your choice of castaways was somewhat narrow — Richard III, Henry VIII, Tony Blair and Jeremy Clarkson popped up again and again. This meant a fair amount of repetition: King Richard was the most popular and his selections more often than not included ‘Dem bones’ and ‘Two Princes’ by the Spin Doctors.

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