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41 episodes
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Total castaways
1980s
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7
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How the deaths of both parents in a few weeks left Oliver Postgate in charge of the real world
How a press conference proposal left Susana Walton foreseeing 'three weeks of disaster'
Norman Schwarzkopf on his five-year-old son's drawing of a general
How Margaret Thatcher told David Mellor he'd never make a living at the Chancery Bar
Diana Mosley on missing three and a half years of her children's lives in prison
Thomas Armstrong on singing for Queen Alexandra as a nine-year-old chorister
Michael Foot on the radiogram that brought Mozart into his flat
James Herbert on the review that said his first book belonged in the garbage
Gordon Beningfield on getting down on his hands and knees to see a butterfly's landscape
Douglas Reeman on getting his best friend to swim for him in a full duck uniform
Jack Brymer on the phone call that opened with ‘Mister Brimer, I believe you play the clarionet’
How 13 episodes of a television series made Robert Hardy wish for a desert island
Mel Torme on how 'Mountain Greenery' became a UK number one after being cut from a film
How a biography of Charles Dickens led Emlyn Williams to create a one-man show