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29 episodes
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27
Total castaways
1970s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
How Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran's childhood home became a TV set
Charles Jencks on the 3:32 demolition that killed modernism
Harry Kroto on checking the postmark to see if his knighthood offer was a joke
Kyra Vayne on eating potato peels and rotten fish bones to survive the Russian Revolution
How writing the first letter of each word cured Richard Condon's stutter
How the War Office tried to stop Powell and Pressburger making Colonel Blimp
How shooting partridges got Geoffrey Household a job at the Ottoman Bank
How Wilfred Thesiger survived the Empty Quarter on half a pound of flour and a pint of water a day
Luciano Pavarotti on not being able to imagine himself alone for more than a day
Alice Delysia on the scandalous costume that got her in trouble with the censor
John Osborne on how Laurence Olivier jokingly asked for a part in The Entertainer
Bransby Williams on dressing among seals and sea lions at his first theatre job