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23 episodes
Chosen over the decades
22
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
6
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Martin Evans on receiving his Nobel Prize call in his oldest clothes with a sander
How the deaths of both parents in a few weeks left Oliver Postgate in charge of the real world
Edna O'Brien on her mother burying a censored copy of The Country Girls in a field
Arthur Scargill on learning sign language in three weeks down the pit
How a two-book deal for Phil Edmonds started his wife's writing career
How a wise old man's advice led Albert and Michel Roux to pastry
David Scott Blackhall on the pub outing that showed him people don't speak to the blind
Catherine Gavin on the grenadier guards saluting de Gaulle in liberated Paris