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160 episodes
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160
Total castaways
2000s
Peak decade
7
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How failing science exams ended Jeremy Irons's dream of being a vet
David Wilson on taking his coat off at his British Museum interview
How a tip-off about concentration camps sent Shirley Williams to America
Ron Pickering on his bare-knuckle fighter father's impossible standards
Barbara Taylor Bradford on the dying friend who inspired her novel Voice of the Heart
Ian Richardson on dropping his rifle on a polished boot and being knocked unconscious
How her husband's 'Well, then write' turned Rachel Billington into a novelist
James Clavell on being given a proclamation from King George VI as a returning POW
Glyn Daniel on visiting every megalithic monument in southern Britain
Patrick Lichfield on his first photography session with Jacqueline Bissett and Charlotte Rampling
Carl Sagan on the moment the scale of the universe opened up for him as a child
C. Northcote Parkinson on being too busy writing books to play discs
Cathy Berberian on singing baritone, bass and coloratura as a child because nobody told her she couldn't
Catherine Gavin on the grenadier guards saluting de Gaulle in liberated Paris
How Nellie Wallace's rude noises inspired Alec Guinness to become an actor
Magnus Magnusson on discovering he was short-sighted during his first TV link
Christopher Milne on the weekly moment his singing voice dominated in chapel