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Luxury
138 episodes
Chosen over the decades
138
Total castaways
2000s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Stephen Mangan on being inspected with a magnifying glass by Sue Townsend
Mark-Anthony Turnage on the light bulb moment when music clicked aged nine
Richard E Grant on witnessing his mother with his father's best friend at age 10
John Legend on being nicknamed 'the legend' by a friend before he had a record deal
Averil Mansfield on repeatedly removing her toy panda's appendix
Helena Morrissey on her childhood obsession with earning Brownie badges
Venki Ramakrishnan on thinking his Nobel Prize call was an elaborate prank
Gareth Malone on the painful moment he couldn't sing, with his father and teacher joining in
Bryan Stevenson on the death row prisoner who sang a hymn that changed his life
David Attenborough on his father running down the allotment with the news he won a scholarship
Harvey Goldsmith on Keith Moon throwing a television into a swimming pool
Kay Davies on her parents almost having to glue her to the seat at Oxford
Vladimir Jurowski on conducting La Bohème the day after his father's heart attack
Natasha Spender on improvising on the piano to communicate with her father
David Edgar on the night before his wife died when she said 'I do have a right to my anger'
Meera Syal on being asked 'Why don't you go back where you come from?' as a child
George Fenton on the Daily Telegraph advert that got him a part in Forty Years On
Claude-Michel Schonberg on knowing he wanted to be an operatic composer at age six
Cormac Murphy O'Connor on waking up at three in the morning and wondering if it's all true
How a lie from his mother led Stephen Sondheim to live with his father at 15
How hypnotism stopped Sheila Hancock vomiting before a National Theatre performance
Stuart Hall on watching his father being patronised in colonial Jamaica
Maria Ewing on thinking her mother's compliment meant she couldn't play the piano
Laurens Van Der Post on resolving to apologize to the Bushmen at age eight