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226 episodes
Chosen over the decades
226
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
A S Byatt on feeling an immense space after her mother's death
How timing bubbles helped Robin Knox-Johnston navigate when his log failed
Richard Rogers on being beaten at boarding school for failing to remember lines
Ian Trethowan on being told he was not a star by BBC Television boss Hugh Weldon
Robin Day on the time he thought he would be arrested for making an interruption
Josephine Barnes on her father becoming a mature undergraduate at Oxford aged 44
Joan Armatrading on arriving from the Caribbean alone aged seven with a sign around her neck
Michael Foot on the radiogram that brought Mozart into his flat
How a novice master warned Trevor Huddleston he would miss children
Lord Armstrong on going to Buckingham Palace with Heath to resign and returning with Wilson
How bumping his head on the ceiling made Jeremy Isaacs dizzy with opera
Arthur Scargill on learning sign language in three weeks down the pit
William Davis on seeing death and destruction at age ten in wartime Germany
Bamber Gascoigne on the paralysing boredom that made him give up acting
Bernard Levin on how being forced to learn the violin nearly poisoned him for music
Sue Ryder on being taken to Yorkshire slums by district nurses at age seven
How a tip-off about concentration camps sent Shirley Williams to America
Bruce Oldfield on leaving New York on a bus with his tail between his legs