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59 episodes
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59
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
6
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Ron Pickering on his bare-knuckle fighter father's impossible standards
Max Boyce on blanking out while reciting a poem as a child
Patricia Ruanne on hiding behind a character to overcome performance nerves
Anthony Powell on cleaning ink pots in a publisher's office where convicts were better treated
Luciano Pavarotti on not being able to imagine himself alone for more than a day
Barry Cunliffe on how a young excavator’s neat cut uncovered a Roman inscription in Bath