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282 episodes
Chosen over the decades
282
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Steven Isserlis on comparing listening to his own recordings to a dog sniffing the pavement
Eliza Manningham-Buller on the lift ride when she wondered which colleague was a traitor
Vladimir Jurowski on conducting La Bohème the day after his father's heart attack
Raymond Tallis on his father asking why treat old people since everyone dies
Rachel Whiteread on snipers on all the rooftops at her Holocaust Memorial unveiling
Katharine Whitehorn on her husband telling her to get a job on a Hampstead Heath bench
Yvonne Brewster on being put out in the garden after showing her native costumes
Gulam Noon on promising his mother he'd take care of everything after his father died
How seeing an architecture school in Edinburgh set Nicholas Grimshaw's career
Gillian Anderson on going into therapy at 14 for drugs, alcohol, and promiscuity
Marguerite Wolff on seeing girls swinging tennis rackets and feeling wistful
Richard Briers on being fired from amateur dramatics at 14 for speaking too fast
Ronald Harwood on Donald Wolfit kicking his legs in the air after his knighthood
Patricia Routledge on the terror of putting her hand on the door handle before every performance
Sybille Bedford on growing potatoes on the lawns while the cellar stayed full of claret