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85 episodes
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Total castaways
1980s
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8
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Carol Robinson on escaping out of her bedroom window as a child
Carl Jones on hearing there were only four Mauritius kestrels left and thinking 'I can do that'
How a phone call from Amber Rudd confirmed Cressida Dick as Met Commissioner
Gareth Malone on the painful moment he couldn't sing, with his father and teacher joining in
Ann Dowling on taking her bike apart and losing all the ball bearings
Patricia Greene on being asked for dating advice by a stranger in Waitrose
How Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran's childhood home became a TV set
Richards on adapting his orders to fight back in Sierra Leone
Jayne Torvill on tearing around an ice rink at age nine
Victor Adebowale on the casual cruelty he observed as a street sweeper
Peter Maxwell Davies on hearing the music he was going to write in a Lake District mist
Baruch Blumberg on the three years it took to connect an Australian blood sample to hepatitis B
Marguerite Wolff on seeing girls swinging tennis rackets and feeling wistful
Michael Holroyd on his father threatening to take him to court over his novel
George Martin on the morning in June 1962 when the Beatles walked into Abbey Road
Barbara Castle on her mother’s feeding kitchen for miners’ children during the 1920s lockout
Michael Tilson Thomas on being told to put his suit on and conduct mid-concert
How a broken pair led Michael Heseltine to seize the mace
Victoria Wood on writing a song after being rejected for a part in Loot
Phil Edmonds on his family being ostracized as 'Kaffa Booties' in Zambia
Alfred Eisenstadt on being hoisted 142 feet into a rainforest tree to photograph from a platform