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62 episodes
Chosen over the decades
61
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
7
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Jenny Beavan on the headlines after collecting a BAFTA in a leather jacket
Helen Oxenbury on being bedridden with asthma and drawing to pass the time
Charles Hazlewood on revealing his childhood sexual abuse for the first time
Garry Kasparov on his mother refusing to let him quit during a losing match
Roger Graef on deciding to become a director after noticing audience attention at Harvard
Martina Navratilova on her father telling her at age eight she would win Wimbledon
How a bombing raid seemed frightfully exciting to a young Charles Guthrie
David Hempleman Adams on using a Margaret Thatcher book as toilet paper
Roy Calne on the collie dog that bounded into an auditorium after a kidney transplant
Isabel Allende on her family playing the roles from The House of the Spirits
Christabel Bielenberg on ringing the Gestapo and demanding they turn off the lights
How a banana thrown across the room proved to Henrietta her husband was recovering
Cecil Lewis on lasting nine months as a fighter pilot when the average life was three weeks
How timing bubbles helped Robin Knox-Johnston navigate when his log failed
Robin Day on the time he thought he would be arrested for making an interruption
Diana Mosley on missing three and a half years of her children's lives in prison
Eric Clapton on discovering at nine that his parents were actually his grandparents
Salman Rushdie on the triple whammy of being bad at games, good at studies, and foreign
William Whitelaw on acting as a bouncer at Churchill's Cambridge speech
Victoria de los Angeles on her father convincing a priest to combine her mother's and uncle's names