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154 episodes
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152
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
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How John Schlesinger fell asleep while Rupert Everett pitched a script
Russell Foster on his headmaster describing him as entirely non-academic
Margaret MacMillan on finding Winston Churchill's scribbled comments in a pre-WWI document
James MacMillan on leaving a Young Communist League conference to attend Mass
Stephen Fry on his psychiatrist's frustration that his parents weren't in the diplomatic corps
Raja Shehadeh on the military governor calling his father to warn him about his activism
Nicola Benedetti on choosing to practise over a birthday party aged eight
Blanche Marvin on being killed off as Superman’s girlfriend to meet a man in Paris
Marcus du Sautoy on a teacher with a cigar who showed him the real maths
Antonia Fraser on her 'don't come in' notice for writing while raising six children
Joanna Lumley on being put in a private hospital room because she had no male visitor
Menzies Campbell on the moment he was told he had a malignant tumour
Robin Cook on abandoning academia after a colleague's thesis on Victorian sanitation
Timothy Clifford on taking his parents on a guided tour of Rome without ever having been there
How Rupert Murdoch asked Harold Evans to resign while he prepared for his father's funeral
Gavin Bryars on finding a tramp's recording that became Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Colin Dexter on Lord Harding of Penshurst offering to publish his first Morse novel within 24 hours
Martin Rees on how being bad at Greek and Latin steered him towards astronomy
Colin Blakemore on developing a stomach ulcer at the age of eleven