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70 episodes
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70
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
7
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Castaways who chose this
Venki Ramakrishnan on thinking his Nobel Prize call was an elaborate prank
Raja Shehadeh on the military governor calling his father to warn him about his activism
David Edgar on the night before his wife died when she said 'I do have a right to my anger'
How hiding behind a curtain reunited Shirley Williams with her mother
How hypnotism stopped Sheila Hancock vomiting before a National Theatre performance
Roy Calne on the collie dog that bounded into an auditorium after a kidney transplant
Garrison Keillor on riding his bike to the Mississippi River and no one noticing he'd left
Ghillean Prance on being marooned in the Amazon for eight days with no food
John Schlesinger on his father's question about the Jewish character in Sunday Bloody Sunday
Jonathon Porritt on being taken aback by Mrs Thatcher's environmental speech
Joan Armatrading on arriving from the Caribbean alone aged seven with a sign around her neck
How a novice master warned Trevor Huddleston he would miss children
Geoffrey Howe on convincing Labour voters that Tories don't have horns, tails or cloven hooves
Joseph Allen on the one-second transition from three times his weight to zero in orbit
Princess Michael of Kent on having a cat in her pocket when she was rescued
Keith Waterhouse on being beckoned into Alfred Hitchcock's presence to polish dialogue