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48 episodes
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48
Total castaways
2010s
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6
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Pamela Shaw on her headmistress telling her young ladies didn't need physics and chemistry
David Morrissey on being born in a house with an outside toilet and a tin bath
Jojo Moyes on discovering in her twenties that her parents planned to have her adopted
David Nicholls on the passage from Tess of the d'Urbervilles that inspired One Day
How Stephen Merchant discovered a John Cleese message on his parents’ answerphone
Louis Theroux on the freedom of filming with a gun nut on a hillside in Idaho
Bob Mortimer on first seeing Vic Reeves with a Bryan Ferry mask and planks on his feet
Minouche Shafik on her mother crying at the mailbox after moving to America
Ann Dowling on taking her bike apart and losing all the ball bearings
How a Richard Serra sculpture gave Damien Hirst the idea for a walk-through cow
Sebastian Faulks on his publisher's head-in-hands reaction to his Birdsong pitch
Kim Cattrall on her childhood ambition to sing Jingle Bells in a Christmas pageant
Meera Syal on being asked 'Why don't you go back where you come from?' as a child
David Gilmour on ignoring his parents' advice to have something to fall back on
Bruce Oldfield on leaving New York on a bus with his tail between his legs