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43 episodes
Chosen over the decades
43
Total castaways
2000s
Peak decade
6
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Lee Child on his father's unforgettable remark about the smell of a dead body
Abdulrazak Gurnah on mistaking the Nobel Prize call for a cold call
Mark-Anthony Turnage on the light bulb moment when music clicked aged nine
Clive Myrie on his mother being turned away from a Catholic church because of her address
Nicole Farhi on sculpting a head of Thomas Gainsborough for Gainsborough House
Bryan Stevenson on the death row prisoner who sang a hymn that changed his life
How a sudden break of sun among pine trees in a Citroën made Eric Pickles perfectly happy
Sheila Hollins on pretending to be a housewife at parties to avoid others' attitudes
Harvey Goldsmith on Keith Moon throwing a television into a swimming pool
Sebastian Faulks on his publisher's head-in-hands reaction to his Birdsong pitch
Kristin Scott Thomas on pretending to be dead in a plane crash for a film role
Stuart Hall on watching his father being patronised in colonial Jamaica
Hanif Kureishi on being racially insulted every day from age four to sixteen
Michael Bogdanov on how a friend's letter to Trinity College Dublin earned him a place
Nigel Kennedy on getting a perfect score after his teacher warned him against playing jazz