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Luxury
29 episodes
Chosen over the decades
29
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Garry Kasparov on his mother refusing to let him quit during a losing match
Carlo Rovelli on writing physics equations under a tree in a commune
Maggie Aderin-Pocock on vowing to be as good as any boy to prove her father wrong
Mary Benson on pretending to write notes about Saul Bellow's Herzog while under house arrest
How learning he would inherit the family estate made the Duke of Westminster want to run for the door
How a request to paint fingernails on a Paris flight led Peter Palumbo to his wife
Bob Hoskins on landing a lead role while accompanying a mate to an audition
William Davis on seeing death and destruction at age ten in wartime Germany
James Callaghan on the Ministry of Pensions paying his two-guinea school fees
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