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606 episodes
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606
Total castaways
1990s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Nancy Rothwell on realising she was wearing two left shoes
Debbie Wiseman on composing 70 minutes of orchestral music in three and a half weeks
Jeremy Hutchinson on singing 'Roll out the barrel' with Lord Mountbatten
How a sudden break of sun among pine trees in a Citroën made Eric Pickles perfectly happy
Blanche Marvin on being killed off as Superman’s girlfriend to meet a man in Paris
Mona Siddiqui on dressing up as a bride and sitting silently for two hours in a school play
David Attenborough on his father running down the allotment with the news he won a scholarship
Paul Johnson on finding he didn’t enjoy power as editor of the New Statesman
Anne Owers on the panic attack at university that traced back to her father's death
Gyorgy Pauk on always keeping extra food in hotels after surviving the Budapest ghetto
Kay Davies on her parents almost having to glue her to the seat at Oxford