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453 episodes
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448
Total castaways
1990s
Peak decade
8
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John Gunter on designing a show for his mother that never happened
Gwyneth Jones on her father dying two hours before her scholarship acceptance letter arrived
Maria Von Trapp on being born on a train with the conductor as midwife
Carlo Curley on his first public performance with billiard chalk on his hands
Jacques Cousteau on breaking thirty windows while testing a movie myth
Glyn Daniel on visiting every megalithic monument in southern Britain
Patrick Lichfield on his first photography session with Jacqueline Bissett and Charlotte Rampling
Carl Sagan on the moment the scale of the universe opened up for him as a child
Grace Kelly on being turned down by a college because of returning GIs
Frederic Raphael on having to explain why a character is named Martha not Georgina
Catherine Gaskin on practicing piano at her teacher's house every morning at 7:30
How the War Office tried to stop Powell and Pressburger making Colonel Blimp
Freddie Jones on how his resignation made the company's shares rise by four points
Lindsay Anderson on writing 'I rebel about nothing in particular' on a looking glass aged nine
Donald Pleasence on winning a silver medal at a musical festival aged seven
Claudio Abbado on deciding to become a conductor at age seven after hearing his first concert at La Scala