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35 episodes
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Total castaways
2010s
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4
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How a text message convinced Steven Knight to cast Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby
Toto Wolff on leaving school with his sister because tuition fees were unpaid
Corinne Le Quéré on bringing 100,000-year-old ice that pops like Rice Krispies
Peter Schmeichel on not remembering Manchester United’s 1999 Champions League victory
Sally Davies on sitting all night with a young woman drowning in her own lung fluid
Minouche Shafik on her mother crying at the mailbox after moving to America
Jayne-Anne Gadhia on feeling like Dementors had come into the room with postnatal depression
How a chess game at age 11 made Demis Hassabis ask if we're wasting our minds
Alison Balsom on the concert that made her want to play the trumpet aged 10
Jayne Torvill on tearing around an ice rink at age nine
Hilary Devey on discovering her father was already married with four children
How an advert for foster children gave Jacqueline Wilson the idea for Tracy Beaker
Matthew Pinsent on the submarine-like pressure that brought him to tears on the podium
Jackie Stewart on learning about timing from a deer stalker on Loch Lomond