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43 episodes
Chosen over the decades
43
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
7
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Arlene Phillips on deciding never to go home after a dance class
Richard Madeley on his wife's 'three pack' reply to his marriage proposal
Antonio Carluccio on the sad state of Italian food when he arrived in London
Claude-Michel Schonberg on knowing he wanted to be an operatic composer at age six
How hypnotism stopped Sheila Hancock vomiting before a National Theatre performance
Maurice Saatchi on being carried off the field after a cricket ball ended his sporting career
Gavin Laird on wealthy families offering to take the dog instead of evacuee children
How Maxwell Hutchinson could play the Dambusters March on piano without ever being taught
Patricia Ruanne on hiding behind a character to overcome performance nerves
Catherine Bramwell-Booth on marching cadets into the Silver Town explosion
Rita Streich on being held tight by her mother as wolves approached the sledge in Siberia
How a flash of inspiration at the Barrier Reef made Noel Streatfeild a novelist
Alice Delysia on the scandalous costume that got her in trouble with the censor
David Shepherd on raising £46,000 in one evening for a poacher-catching helicopter
Jacques Brunius on the big job of translating Lewis Carroll that occupied most of 1965
Claudio Arrau on teaching himself to read music before he could read words at age four
Alfred Hitchcock on describing Psycho as 'a rather gentle horror picture'