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18 episodes
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18
Total castaways
2010s
Peak decade
6
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
How James Rebanks' dad told him to stop being a pain in the ass and go to Oxford
Christopher Nolan on seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey on an enormous screen as a child
Debbie Wiseman on composing 70 minutes of orchestral music in three and a half weeks
Claire Bertschinger on choosing which starving children to feed based on a spark in their eyes
Virginia McKenna on her father keeping a snake called George and two bush babies
How a banana thrown across the room proved to Henrietta her husband was recovering
Barry Norman on being hurled into a racial maelstrom as a 19-year-old journalist
Bruce Tulloh on getting the idea to run across America from the Guinness Book of Records