For decades the great and the good have imagined life on a secluded island with nothing but the Bible, the complete works of Shakespeare and a favourite record.
To mark the 70th anniversary of BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on Sunday, the nation has also been asked to picture themselves as castaways and choose the one track they would save from the waves.
During the long, hot August of 1976 Mandy, from Leeds, was 16 and newly in love.
David Dundas's Jeans On was played constantly on the radio and despite its "cheesiness" it is the song that transports Mandy back to her youth.
"My boyfriend had a motorbike and we went camping in the Lake District," she said.
"We told my parents we were staying in youth hostels as they were rather strict and would not have approved of us camping in farmers' fields!
"I remember that song was on the radio and me singing along pillion on the bike with the road stretching ahead and endless sunshine during that hot summer.
"Not long after that, punk came along and it took that innocence away. That summer is probably summed up entirely by that song for me. It transports me back."
At midday on Sunday all 40 local radio stations and Radio Scotland, Radio nan Gàidheal, Radio Wales, Radio Ulster & Radio Foyle will simultaneously broadcast their own Your Desert Island Discs.
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