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41 episodes
Chosen over the decades
39
Total castaways
2010s
Peak decade
6
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Ebony Rainford-Brent on the day police came to say her brother was in intensive care
David Nicholls on the passage from Tess of the d'Urbervilles that inspired One Day
John Legend on being nicknamed 'the legend' by a friend before he had a record deal
Simon Wessely on being banned from a Spanish holiday because of fascism
Siddhartha Mukherjee on his grandmother’s seven articles of clothing and one daily meal
Yinka Shonibare on waking from a two-week coma to discover he was paralyzed
How Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran's childhood home became a TV set
Marin Alsop on deciding to become a conductor aged nine after seeing Leonard Bernstein conduct
Rose Hudson-Wilkin on fetching water from a standpipe as a child in Jamaica
Nicola Benedetti on choosing to practise over a birthday party aged eight
Tom Jones on his father going to work in the coal mine after he bought a Jaguar
Kim Cattrall on her childhood ambition to sing Jingle Bells in a Christmas pageant
Bruce Oldfield on leaving New York on a bus with his tail between his legs
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais on meeting at The Uxbridge Arms and playing hearts
Anna Raeburn on expecting Laurence Olivier to discover her on her 17th birthday