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23 episodes
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Total castaways
2010s
Peak decade
6
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Tim Waterstone on being fired from WH Smith
Patricia Greene on being asked for dating advice by a stranger in Waitrose
Gyles Brandreth on applying to become an MP the day his youngest daughter became a teenager
Sebastian Faulks on his publisher's head-in-hands reaction to his Birdsong pitch
Penelope Wilton on the warm air from a pantomime stage that made her want to act
Peter Mansfield on climbing into his prototype MRI scanner in complete darkness
Fay Maschler on being caught in disguise as Shirley Bassey by Marco Pierre White
How a banana thrown across the room proved to Henrietta her husband was recovering
How Philip Hope-Wallace was laughed at for naming Handel and Verdi as favourite composers at Oxford