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65 episodes
Chosen over the decades
63
Total castaways
2000s
Peak decade
6
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Mark Knopfler on his sister turning his tennis racket guitar the right way
Peter Doig on a forged painting signed 'Pete Doigie'
Margaret MacMillan on finding Winston Churchill's scribbled comments in a pre-WWI document
Phil Scraton on watching a poor boy punished in assembly and knowing it was wrong
Yotam Ottolenghi on his grandmother sipping espresso and making semolina gnocchi
Matthew Barzun on the blank card exercise that revealed guns as schoolchildren's top concern
Mary Robinson on walking down Grafton Street and feeling like the devil incarnate
Alexandra Shulman on her English teacher saying she might work in a kindergarten
Jerry Springer on resigning from Cincinnati City Council after visiting a prostitute
Joan Bakewell on the shock of seeing her affair dramatised in Harold Pinter's Betrayal
David Cameron on driving home from hospital after his son's diagnosis
Menzies Campbell on the moment he was told he had a malignant tumour
David Gilmour on ignoring his parents' advice to have something to fall back on
Robin Cook on abandoning academia after a colleague's thesis on Victorian sanitation
Fay Maschler on being caught in disguise as Shirley Bassey by Marco Pierre White
Chris De Burgh on not wanting to be a grandfather saying he could have been a great singer