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124 episodes
Chosen over the decades
124
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Cleo Laine on the New Year's Eve kiss with Johnny Dankworth
Irene Thomas on being dismissed as a 'jamped up chorus girl' by Round Britain Quiz
Gillian Shephard on being stuck in a teaching routine she didn't enjoy
Anthony Rolfe Johnson on being told he was in the wrong job by a singing teacher
Ninette de Valois on the moment Margot Fonteyn stood out like a diamond
Eduardo Paolozzi on the night his father was taken away and never seen again
Nicholas Goodison on buying a cheap barometer that led to writing the standard reference book
Stan Barstow on the moment a book by H.E. Bates showed him what to write about
How a tip-off about concentration camps sent Shirley Williams to America
Paul McCartney on swapping his trumpet for a guitar and discovering he was left-handed
Earl of Harewood on worrying his royal bargaining power as a POW was a bluff
Glyn Daniel on visiting every megalithic monument in southern Britain
Julian Lloyd Webber on choosing the cello to get out of practising the piano