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67 episodes
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Total castaways
2000s
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Castaways who chose this
Edmund Rubbra on ‘knitting’ his music instead of writing it
How Wilfred Thesiger survived the Empty Quarter on half a pound of flour and a pint of water a day
Alec Clifton-Taylor on escaping his family to rush into a church as a child
Deborah Kerr on her first film appearance ending up on the cutting room floor
Alec Robertson on his mother's singing lesson that ended with 'never come back'