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164 episodes
Chosen over the decades
162
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Patricia Routledge on the terror of putting her hand on the door handle before every performance
Paul Hogarth on his father standing outside his exhibition
Viscount Rothermere on his sinking heart at the prospect of a life of hunting and shooting
Kyra Vayne on eating potato peels and rotten fish bones to survive the Russian Revolution
George Martin on the morning in June 1962 when the Beatles walked into Abbey Road
George Lloyd on surviving a shipwreck that drowned his comrades in thick black oil
Richard Dawkins on comparing God to Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy
Conrad Black on taking visitors to see his press hall's million-copy print run
Shirley Anne Field on wiping off her make-up to land her role in The Entertainer
Betty Boothroyd on being the only person who believed she could win a 20,000 Tory majority
How Margaret Thatcher told David Mellor he'd never make a living at the Chancery Bar
Ninette de Valois on the moment Margot Fonteyn stood out like a diamond
The Duchess of Kent on her first memory of music from a Victorian musical box
Arthur Scargill on learning sign language in three weeks down the pit
William Davis on seeing death and destruction at age ten in wartime Germany
Kenneth Williams on the newsvendor whose voice he used for Gramp Fattock
How James Prior challenged the minister of food over his school pig club
Brian Redhead on vowing to be a journalist after reading about Scoop Mallory
Alfred Eisenstadt on being hoisted 142 feet into a rainforest tree to photograph from a platform
How picking up a girl at a dance hall led Frederick Gibberd to his first design