But, according to Jimmy Young, BBC bosses expected the revolutionary format to have only a brief life.
But by now, even the most ignorant people realize that speaking more than one language is not only a real life necessity but also a large investment in your economic future and a safety net if your country goes awry.
Sceptics point out that if big cats have been surviving, and breeding, in the wild for all this time, they only have a natural life span of some 20 years.
In fact, if a treatment always produced only a two-week life extension, the FDA would likely never have approved such a regimen in the first place.
Peter is a nationally recognized life insurance expert and is a pioneer in fee-only life insurance advising.
Only a ski strap saved his life when he once fell over the edge of a polar crevasse, and he has abandoned far more expeditions than he has completed.
The only way to stop a life-threatening reaction, called anaphylaxis, is an epinephrine auto-injector, which allergists recommend that everyone with severe food allergies should carry.
Iodine-131, with a half-life of only 8 days, decayed away in a few months following the accident and no one was found to have ingested any significant amount.
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Highlanders have traditionally set a high value on education and acquiring new skills, if only as a passport to a better life elsewhere.
She was a single mother, victim of domestic violence and her only focus in life was to create a safe haven for Arab and Muslim American women to find refuge and support.
Chen keeps the action charging forward breathlessly, for more than two and a half hours, and at a certain point you begin to realize that the obvious theatre-versus-life ironies are only a small part of what the movie is about.
You need to be there as quick as you can, because as a fire develops it's not only the people who probably could lose a life in that fire, but also the firefighters' lives are put at risk.
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To those hardy enough to survive here, it offered a life ruled only by the elements.
Wade allows late-term abortions after 24 weeks only when a woman's life is danger.
Zero tolerance not only prevents a minority from making life a misery for the rest.
"A life with only work and sleep can become very unsatisfying, " he says.
Forever convinced of her own innocence, Catherine declares that one loves truly only for a single moment in life.
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The drug, Dr Baker found, produced some benefit even if it was administered to a mouse only later in life.
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Dialysis is only a temporizing measure, and life threatening complications mount quickly.
Once again, back to the Fifth Splendid Truth: you can build a happy life only on the foundation of your own nature.
In summary, stock valuations do matter, but only during a time in your life when you looking at an asset allocation change in the next 10 years anyway.
But in the inimitable way that could only be the result of a life so deeply mixed with tragedy and joy, Westheimer finds a way to make light of the shrapnel wounds her feet suffered during the attack.
It all seems like a mirage, and as such it will vanish as the land dries out, only to spring to life again in a few years or a decade's time.
So a lot of folks felt like that idea that we not only could live a good middle-class life, but more importantly we could pass it on to our kids, and they could succeed the way we might not have imagined.
Or consider the case of a manufacturing firm that builds a new plant with an estimated life of 30 years, only to learn a year later that the widgets the plant was built to produce have become obsolete.
Combined with a healthy dose of live performances, a memoir and a documentary about his life, music has given him not only a voice but a financially viable career that enables Jal to take care of himself and others.
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The opposite of Frankenstein, the myth I wish we saw more of, is the Pinocchio myth, which is about a puppet that wants to become human, an improbable technology that wants to make life better, if only with a sweet, gentle wish upon a star.
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Imagine being a 45 or 50 year old man or woman who has supported the family by showing up each day for a factory shift only to find yourself now facing life after the factory has shut down in the face of a move offshore or as a result of an economy that put the owner out of business.
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However, if you value a quieter, more contemplative life, one punctuated only by the scraping of chairs after a leisurely lunch and the wind rustling through the lavender fields, a few miles back from the coast lies the picturesque village of Vidauban.
These Sunday meetings offer them the only hope they have for a better life.
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