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55 episodes
Chosen over the decades
55
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Mona Siddiqui on dressing up as a bride and sitting silently for two hours in a school play
How amateur dramatics led Brenda Blethyn's husband to fall for the lady opposite
Ronald Searle on writing a note saying 'I've gone' and abandoning his old life
Marguerite Wolff on seeing girls swinging tennis rackets and feeling wistful
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
Harold Fielding on the contract demand that got him a police car ride with Sinatra
Nicholas Henderson on a US senator's warning about Falklands casualties
Douglas Hurd on a coronation bonfire and a wife's knickers caught in the wire
Elwyn-Jones on the emotional ordeal of reading the death sentence in court
Princess Michael of Kent on having a cat in her pocket when she was rescued
J K Galbraith on interrogating Nazi leaders like Goering and Speer
Frankie Howerd on making up Bible stories as a Sunday school teacher aged 13
William Whitelaw on acting as a bouncer at Churchill's Cambridge speech
Peter Shaffer on his two and three quarter years as a Bevin boy down the coal mines
Amadeus String Quartet on their debut concert that turned people away
Anthony Powell on cleaning ink pots in a publisher's office where convicts were better treated
Bruce Tulloh on getting the idea to run across America from the Guinness Book of Records
Alister Hardy on his theory that humans evolved from apes in the sea
How a quiet Sherlock Holmes trip to Switzerland became a world story for Paul Gore-Booth