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226 episodes
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Total castaways
1980s
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How Jocelyn Bell Burnell learned at 18 months that men count and women don’t
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
How a bombing raid seemed frightfully exciting to a young Charles Guthrie
Clarissa Dickson Wright on the carrots her father fed her, still with slugs on them
Anthony Howard on how friendship with Charles Straitshey changed his politics
Harry Enfield on bitterly resenting his father for picking him up from parties
Mary Benson on pretending to write notes about Saul Bellow's Herzog while under house arrest
How a surprise visit from the chairman of NatWest led Alexander to leave the bar for banking
Roy Calne on the collie dog that bounded into an auditorium after a kidney transplant
Richard Hoggart on putting his cap in his pocket after schoolboys threw it off daily
How learning he would inherit the family estate made the Duke of Westminster want to run for the door
George Lloyd on surviving a shipwreck that drowned his comrades in thick black oil
Frances Partridge on losing her faith in a seaside boarding house aged 11
Arnold Weinstock on being sent with a label and gas mask to the wilds of Warwickshire
David Jenkins on the violence of the reaction to his questioning of the virgin birth
John Schlesinger on his father's question about the Jewish character in Sunday Bloody Sunday