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84 episodes
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84
Total castaways
1970s
Peak decade
8
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How sleeping on the factory floor helped Jony Ive perfect the iPhone
June Spencer on climbing to the highest point of a desert island to shout Hallelujah
Ann Dowling on taking her bike apart and losing all the ball bearings
David Nott on operating on an IS fighter as six gunmen burst into the operating theatre
Debbie Wiseman on composing 70 minutes of orchestral music in three and a half weeks
Marguerite Wolff on seeing girls swinging tennis rackets and feeling wistful
Maria Ewing on thinking her mother's compliment meant she couldn't play the piano
Thomas Armstrong on singing for Queen Alexandra as a nine-year-old chorister
How James Prior challenged the minister of food over his school pig club
Christopher Reeve on his first stage role as a boy soprano in Gilbert and Sullivan
Michael Quinn on telling Ritz directors they’d have to pay to taste his cooking
Freddie Jones on how his resignation made the company's shares rise by four points