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70 episodes
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70
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
7
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
How Malcolm Muggeridge learned in the Soviet Union that power cannot make men good
Terry Hands on applying to RADA as an afterthought
Frederic Raphael on having to explain why a character is named Martha not Georgina
How Margaret Thatcher volunteered to lead her party when no one else would
Deborah Kerr on her first film appearance ending up on the cutting room floor
John Blashford-Snell on forming a private army at 14 to defend Herefordshire
Val Doonican on asking the BBC head of Light Music for a radio series with no work lined up
Alfred Hitchcock on describing Psycho as 'a rather gentle horror picture'