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52 episodes
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Total castaways
1990s
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7
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Emily Watson on being told to ‘go on your undignified way’ by her religious group
Maxine Peake on watching her dad laugh at The Goodies and wanting to make him laugh
Alex Salmond on how singing as a boy soprano made Westminster feel like nothing
Patricia Scotland on meeting her husband after planning to dedicate her life to God
Laurens Van Der Post on resolving to apologize to the Bushmen at age eight
Richard Dawkins on comparing God to Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy
Conrad Black on taking visitors to see his press hall's million-copy print run
Cicely Saunders on the patient who thanked her for telling him he was dying
Ken Livingstone on being greeted by the deputy whip as a horrible little monster
Christabel Bielenberg on ringing the Gestapo and demanding they turn off the lights
Gavin Laird on wealthy families offering to take the dog instead of evacuee children
Miriam Rothschild on losing her microscope vision and turning to wildflowers
Joanna Lumley on being sent to boarding school where she could be 'bad solidly for three months'
John Osborne on how a press officer coined the ‘angry young man’ label in a pub
Victoria de los Angeles on her father convincing a priest to combine her mother's and uncle's names
Anna Raeburn on expecting Laurence Olivier to discover her on her 17th birthday
David Dimbleby on receiving letters that say his father would be ashamed of him