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38 episodes
Chosen over the decades
38
Total castaways
1990s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Nancy Rothwell on realising she was wearing two left shoes
Richard Madeley on his wife's 'three pack' reply to his marriage proposal
John Stevens on dealing with a fatally burnt man during his first weeks on the beat
Michael Holroyd on his father threatening to take him to court over his novel
Max Nicholson on the visit to the Natural History Museum's bird gallery that set him on his life's work
How a blind date at a university ball led Sybil Marshall to the love of her life
Ken Livingstone on being greeted by the deputy whip as a horrible little monster
Evelyn Glennie on telling musical intervals by where she feels them in her feet
David Jenkins on the violence of the reaction to his questioning of the virgin birth
How Fred Zinnemann's violin playing made his baby brother cry and his dog howl
Claudio Abbado on deciding to become a conductor at age seven after hearing his first concert at La Scala
Shinwell on the generals who threatened to resign when he arrived at the War Office
Arthur C Clarke on building his own crystal set to listen to music as a youth
Tommy Reilly on getting harmonicas from a German welfare officer in a prison camp