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144 episodes
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144
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Roy Calne on the collie dog that bounded into an auditorium after a kidney transplant
Frances Partridge on losing her faith in a seaside boarding house aged 11
Raymond Seitz on the bartender more astonished than him by a White House call
Norman Schwarzkopf on his five-year-old son's drawing of a general
David Jenkins on the violence of the reaction to his questioning of the virgin birth
Michael Tilson Thomas on being told to put his suit on and conduct mid-concert
Nicholas Henderson on a US senator's warning about Falklands casualties
Peter Donohoe on putting his hands under his armpits in a 70mph car crash
How a desire to be a poet got Vernon Scannell sent to a psychiatrist
Kenneth Williams on the newsvendor whose voice he used for Gramp Fattock
Julian Critchley on being summoned by the chief whip for modelling a suit
Brian Redhead on vowing to be a journalist after reading about Scoop Mallory
Carlo Curley on his first public performance with billiard chalk on his hands
Princess Margaret on packing for a weekend at Windsor and staying five years
Catherine Gaskin on practicing piano at her teacher's house every morning at 7:30