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226 episodes
Chosen over the decades
226
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Brenda Hale on why she wore a spider brooch for the prorogation judgment
Jeremy Farrar on failing his A-levels
Margaret MacMillan on finding Winston Churchill's scribbled comments in a pre-WWI document
Ann Dowling on taking her bike apart and losing all the ball bearings
Yinka Shonibare on waking from a two-week coma to discover he was paralyzed
Marjorie Wallace on learning the entire Rime of the Ancient Mariner by heart at six
Jeremy Hutchinson on singing 'Roll out the barrel' with Lord Mountbatten
Sister Wendy Beckett on her father's return from war and her loss of status
Gyorgy Pauk on always keeping extra food in hotels after surviving the Budapest ghetto
Kay Davies on her parents almost having to glue her to the seat at Oxford
Michael Deeley on the secret exhilaration of surviving a shooting in Malaya
Raymond Gubbay on the moment his father got him involved in Mozart's Il Seraglio
Menzies Campbell on the moment he was told he had a malignant tumour
David Sainsbury on being asked to choose a Henry Moore drawing as a birthday present as a small boy
How seeing an architecture school in Edinburgh set Nicholas Grimshaw's career
Elizabeth Longford on her mother fighting a swan at Regent's Park Lake
How a press conference proposal left Susana Walton foreseeing 'three weeks of disaster'
Timothy Clifford on taking his parents on a guided tour of Rome without ever having been there
John Mortimer on his blind father hiding in the herbaceous border from visitors