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69 episodes
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68
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
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Sally Mann on having her pictures removed from a Texas gallery by local officials
Minette Batters on the doctor who drove out to test her son for diabetes
Derren Brown on his student phase as a 'gay leisure pirate' reading Nietzsche in a cave
Carlo Rovelli on writing physics equations under a tree in a commune
How wearing skirts helped Felicity Green navigate Fleet Street's boardroom
Hugh Pennington on examining a PhD thesis at the lab where smallpox escaped
Anthony Horowitz on discovering writing as an escape from a cold boarding school
Linton Kwesi Johnson on turning down a six-album deal with Island Records
How Rupert Murdoch asked Harold Evans to resign while he prepared for his father's funeral
Harry Enfield on bitterly resenting his father for picking him up from parties
Christopher Hampton on writing his first play at the age of eight in Egypt
Isabel Allende on her family playing the roles from The House of the Spirits
Arnold Weinstock on being sent with a label and gas mask to the wilds of Warwickshire
Paddy Ashdown on being asked to call himself Captain Jeremy John Durham Ashton
Nicholas Henderson on a US senator's warning about Falklands casualties
How a wise old man's advice led Albert and Michel Roux to pastry