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38 episodes
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38
Total castaways
1970s
Peak decade
7
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Ian McMillan on his mother going to prison for love
How chasing leopards in Tanzania made Christopher Ondaatje quit business
Vera Lynn on the Dutchman who hid in a hay rick to hear her banned broadcasts
William Whitelaw on acting as a bouncer at Churchill's Cambridge speech
David Scott Blackhall on the pub outing that showed him people don't speak to the blind
Catherine Gavin on the grenadier guards saluting de Gaulle in liberated Paris
Charles Aznavour on selling chocolate and stockings on the black market during the occupation
Alan Gemmell on how his mother declared him a botanist after a neighbour's suggestion
How the musical Breakfast at Tiffany's flopped disastrously for Richard Chamberlain
Jon Vickers on the ball he bounced on a nail that his father thought he'd broken on purpose
A G Street on writing his first article with a stump of pencil while recovering from influenza