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21 episodes
Chosen over the decades
21
Total castaways
2000s
Peak decade
6
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Wendy Hall on being told she didn't get a job because she was a woman
Michael Deeley on the secret exhilaration of surviving a shooting in Malaya
How a lie from his mother led Stephen Sondheim to live with his father at 15
Bill Bryson on waking up in New Hampshire and realising his return to America was a catastrophe
Colin Blakemore on developing a stomach ulcer at the age of eleven
Norman Schwarzkopf on his five-year-old son's drawing of a general
How a tip-off about concentration camps sent Shirley Williams to America
Catherine Gaskin on practicing piano at her teacher's house every morning at 7:30
David Shepherd on raising £46,000 in one evening for a poacher-catching helicopter
How singing kept Rachael Heyhoe's cricket team from getting at one another's throats
Tommy Reilly on getting harmonicas from a German welfare officer in a prison camp