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34 episodes
Chosen over the decades
34
Total castaways
2010s
Peak decade
6
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Sue Barker on her mother Betty Six Gins for Nothing
Jeremy Deller on walking away from his Battle of Orgreave reenactment to buy a chocolate bar
Stella McCartney on her children telling Paul McCartney to shut up while he played guitar
Ann Dowling on taking her bike apart and losing all the ball bearings
Vikram Seth on abandoning his dissertation after reading Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Sister Paul reading his work aloud at age 11
Paul Abbott on knocking on his mother's door and discovering he'd been swapped
Richard Curtis on the film idea he conceived at a petrol station then threw away
Garrison Keillor on riding his bike to the Mississippi River and no one noticing he'd left
Paul Merton on conducting the Joe Loss Orchestra with a knitting needle aged two
David Essex on the music from a Soho basement that felt like a star over Bethlehem