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606 episodes
Chosen over the decades
606
Total castaways
1990s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
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How writers failing to deliver a script led Jonathan Lynn to write his first TV episode
Michael Ffolkes on selling his first cartoon aged ten
Christopher Reeve on his first stage role as a boy soprano in Gilbert and Sullivan
Elwyn-Jones on the emotional ordeal of reading the death sentence in court
Princess Michael of Kent on having a cat in her pocket when she was rescued
How picking up a girl at a dance hall led Frederick Gibberd to his first design
Gwyneth Jones on her father dying two hours before her scholarship acceptance letter arrived
Maria Von Trapp on being born on a train with the conductor as midwife
How her husband's 'Well, then write' turned Rachel Billington into a novelist
John Mortimer on playing all the parts in Shakespeare as an only child, including duelling with himself
Julia McKenzie on her first job as an understudy after only seeing the show three times
William Walton on choristers threatening to quit over Belshazzar's Feast
John Osborne on how a press officer coined the ‘angry young man’ label in a pub
Christopher Leaver on his earliest memory of a ship's cabin flooding