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453 episodes
Chosen over the decades
448
Total castaways
1990s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Tamara Rojo on first seeing a ballet class as a five-year-old
Mairi Hedderwick on crying while watching Katie Morag's TV wedding on a beach
Jayne Torvill on tearing around an ice rink at age nine
David Almond on being called an overnight success after twenty years of writing
Mona Siddiqui on dressing up as a bride and sitting silently for two hours in a school play
David Attenborough on his father running down the allotment with the news he won a scholarship
Vikram Seth on abandoning his dissertation after reading Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
Anne Owers on the panic attack at university that traced back to her father's death
Gyorgy Pauk on always keeping extra food in hotels after surviving the Budapest ghetto
Maggie Aderin-Pocock on vowing to be as good as any boy to prove her father wrong
Mary Beard on how her breastfeeding heroism was remembered as dereliction of duty
Hugh Pennington on examining a PhD thesis at the lab where smallpox escaped
Steven Isserlis on comparing listening to his own recordings to a dog sniffing the pavement
Eliza Manningham-Buller on the lift ride when she wondered which colleague was a traitor
Vladimir Jurowski on conducting La Bohème the day after his father's heart attack
Thomas Keneally on meeting a Schindler survivor in a Beverly Hills luggage store
How the deaths of both parents in a few weeks left Oliver Postgate in charge of the real world