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118 episodes
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117
Total castaways
2000s
Peak decade
6
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Salman Rushdie on feeling that hiding behind the sofa was dishonourable
Mark Knopfler on his sister turning his tennis racket guitar the right way
Stanley Tucci on being shocked by the erotic reaction to his negroni clip
How Michael Sandel lured Ronald Reagan to a school debate with jelly beans
Bernardine Evaristo on crossing the road to avoid her father aged 11
Helen McCrory on being told to live a bit during her drama school audition
Louis Theroux on the freedom of filming with a gun nut on a hillside in Idaho
Margaret MacMillan on finding Winston Churchill's scribbled comments in a pre-WWI document
Ann Cleeves on having a Shetland islander read each of her books before publication
Elish Angiolini on the fickle finger of fate that put her on a doomed train
Mary Robinson on walking down Grafton Street and feeling like the devil incarnate
Mary Beard on how her breastfeeding heroism was remembered as dereliction of duty
Joan Bakewell on the shock of seeing her affair dramatised in Harold Pinter's Betrayal