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38 episodes
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38
Total castaways
1990s
Peak decade
6
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
David Nicholls on the passage from Tess of the d'Urbervilles that inspired One Day
Anne Enright on men being personally insulted by her Booker win
Stephen Fry on his psychiatrist's frustration that his parents weren't in the diplomatic corps
David Almond on being called an overnight success after twenty years of writing
Vladimir Jurowski on conducting La Bohème the day after his father's heart attack
Edna O'Brien on her mother burying a censored copy of The Country Girls in a field
How being called 'You with the big ears' got Donald Sutherland his first speaking role in The Dirty Dozen
Fay Maschler on being caught in disguise as Shirley Bassey by Marco Pierre White
Gavin Bryars on finding a tramp's recording that became Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Joanna MacGregor on the shock of being told what to think when she first went to school
Evelyn Glennie on telling musical intervals by where she feels them in her feet
How a four-letter word on TV cost Peregrine Worsthorne the Sunday Telegraph editorship
Anthony Rolfe Johnson on being told he was in the wrong job by a singing teacher
Donald Pleasence on winning a silver medal at a musical festival aged seven