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40 episodes
Chosen over the decades
40
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
6
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Gillian Anderson on going into therapy at 14 for drugs, alcohol, and promiscuity
Anthony Caro on being stuck in a garage
Sybille Bedford on growing potatoes on the lawns while the cellar stayed full of claret
Oliver Sacks on a patient who thought songs from the 1970s were music from the future
Josephine Barnes on her father becoming a mature undergraduate at Oxford aged 44
Claus Moser on watching Hitler's torchlight procession from his window
How bumping his head on the ceiling made Jeremy Isaacs dizzy with opera
Earl of Harewood on worrying his royal bargaining power as a POW was a bluff
Frederick Ashton on being riveted by Anna Pavlova's performance aged 13
Catherine Gaskin on practicing piano at her teacher's house every morning at 7:30
Jack Brymer on the phone call that opened with ‘Mister Brimer, I believe you play the clarionet’
David Attenborough on predicting horseshoe crabs breeding in Chesapeake Bay
Simon Rattle on the terrifying moment before his first rehearsal with an orchestra
How 13 episodes of a television series made Robert Hardy wish for a desert island
Richard Adams on improvising Watership Down on a car journey to see Judi Dench's Viola
Michael Holroyd on arguing so persuasively his father told him to profit from it
Jacob Bronowski on telling the BBC he didn't mean to make a science series like Kenneth Clark's