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49 episodes
Chosen over the decades
49
Total castaways
2000s
Peak decade
5
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Mark Knopfler on his sister turning his tennis racket guitar the right way
Jamie Dornan on being told his mother was dying after a rugby match
Monica McWilliams on watching Mo Mowlam take off her wig to negotiate
Elish Angiolini on the fickle finger of fate that put her on a doomed train
Jane Campbell on the doctor who presumed she wouldn't want to be resuscitated
Maggie Aderin-Pocock on vowing to be as good as any boy to prove her father wrong
Mary Portas on her tearful supermarket encounter with her father's second wife
Patricia Scotland on meeting her husband after planning to dedicate her life to God
Harvey Goldsmith on Keith Moon throwing a television into a swimming pool
Whoopi Goldberg on writing to Alice Walker to play the dirt in The Color Purple
David Hempleman Adams on using a Margaret Thatcher book as toilet paper
Maurice Saatchi on being carried off the field after a cricket ball ended his sporting career
Bob Geldof on the Live Aid moment he realised people in Shanghai or Tierra del Fuego were watching
Joan Armatrading on arriving from the Caribbean alone aged seven with a sign around her neck