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61 episodes
Chosen over the decades
59
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
How Michael Sandel lured Ronald Reagan to a school debate with jelly beans
Martina Cole on being expelled from convent school for reading Harold Robbins' The Betsy
Phil Scraton on watching a poor boy punished in assembly and knowing it was wrong
Siddhartha Mukherjee on his grandmother’s seven articles of clothing and one daily meal
Ann Dowling on taking her bike apart and losing all the ball bearings
Roger Waters on the dream that made him realize he felt he'd killed his father
Jung Chang on her grandmother crying in a mosquito net and cursing the Communists
How Chris Lowe hissed "don't look triumphant" at Neil Tennant on Top of the Pops
Kim Cattrall on her childhood ambition to sing Jingle Bells in a Christmas pageant
Stuart Hall on watching his father being patronised in colonial Jamaica
How a request to paint fingernails on a Paris flight led Peter Palumbo to his wife
Ron Pickering on his bare-knuckle fighter father's impossible standards
How a freeze in the 800 metres forced Sebastian Coe to refocus for the 1500 final
Clive James on losing his only letter of introduction and ten pounds in London
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais on meeting at The Uxbridge Arms and playing hearts