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189 episodes
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188
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
John Banham on surviving a freak hurricane in the 1979 Fastnet race
Paddy Ashdown on being asked to call himself Captain Jeremy John Durham Ashton
Barbara Castle on her mother’s feeding kitchen for miners’ children during the 1920s lockout
Thomas Armstrong on singing for Queen Alexandra as a nine-year-old chorister
Michael Foot on the radiogram that brought Mozart into his flat
Hugh Trevor-Roper on being ordered to investigate Hitler's disappearance
How a broken pair led Michael Heseltine to seize the mace
Bernard Levin on how being forced to learn the violin nearly poisoned him for music
Jacques Loussier on instantly understanding piano at his first sitting
Elaine Paige on her fourth audition for Evita thinking ‘Here we go again’
Anthony Andrews on his only memory of his father coming home with a drum
How a tank-building mission took Ian MacGregor from Glasgow to America
David Wilson on taking his coat off at his British Museum interview
Elwyn-Jones on the emotional ordeal of reading the death sentence in court
Cindy Buxton and Annie Price on how Annie thought the Falkland Islands were in Scotland
Keith Waterhouse on being beckoned into Alfred Hitchcock's presence to polish dialogue
George Thomas on his mother's resolve that he would not go down the pit
John Osborne on how a press officer coined the ‘angry young man’ label in a pub
Catherine Bramwell-Booth on marching cadets into the Silver Town explosion