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48 episodes
Chosen over the decades
48
Total castaways
2000s
Peak decade
7
Decades seen
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Brenda Hale on why she wore a spider brooch for the prorogation judgment
James MacMillan on leaving a Young Communist League conference to attend Mass
Gyles Brandreth on applying to become an MP the day his youngest daughter became a teenager
John Stevens on dealing with a fatally burnt man during his first weeks on the beat
Matthew Pinsent on the submarine-like pressure that brought him to tears on the podium
Barbara Taylor Bradford on having her first story published at the age of ten
Elizabeth Longford on her mother fighting a swan at Regent's Park Lake
Clarissa Dickson Wright on the carrots her father fed her, still with slugs on them
Jack Rosenthal on the game of Consequences that exposed his wartime landlady
How a rugby injury cost Gordon Brown parts of three university years
David Croft on how Jimmy Perry got the idea for Dad's Army from the Home Guard at Buckingham Palace
Josephine Barnes on her father becoming a mature undergraduate at Oxford aged 44
Barbara Taylor Bradford on the dying friend who inspired her novel Voice of the Heart
Frankie Howerd on making up Bible stories as a Sunday school teacher aged 13
Noel Edmonds on quitting a £3,000-a-year job at 19 with nothing to fall back on
Barry Cunliffe on how a young excavator’s neat cut uncovered a Roman inscription in Bath