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99 episodes
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98
Total castaways
2000s
Peak decade
7
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
How a blind date at a university ball led Sybil Marshall to the love of her life
Eduardo Paolozzi on the night his father was taken away and never seen again
Joan Turner on her nervous breakdown from juggling home, husband, and career
Miss Bluebell on hiding her husband in an attic for two and a half years in Nazi-occupied Paris
Alfred Eisenstadt on being hoisted 142 feet into a rainforest tree to photograph from a platform
Alan King-Hamilton on nearly swooning when he mistook a VC for a KC
J K Galbraith on interrogating Nazi leaders like Goering and Speer
James Clavell on being given a proclamation from King George VI as a returning POW
Arthur Askey on carving his initials on a desk Paul McCartney called a shrine
Jack Brymer on the phone call that opened with ‘Mister Brimer, I believe you play the clarionet’
Anthony Quayle on his first taste of money from a musical sketch with Naylor Grimson
Val Doonican on asking the BBC head of Light Music for a radio series with no work lined up
John Ridgway and Chay Blyth on the moment they almost gave up rowing the Atlantic