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Drinking turtle blood and punching sharks - heroes who survived being washed up at sea
Radio 4’s legendary show Desert Island Discs - celebrating its 80th anniversary this week – famously imagine which luxury item they’d want with them if they were ever left stranded.Monty Python star John Cleese joked he’d like to take a stuffed Michael Palin, politician Boris Johnson chose French mustard and TV mogul Simon Cowell asked for a mirror!But some folk have become real-life castaways, just like Tom Hanks’ character in the hit 2000 film. Here James Moore looks at six gripping tales.The author Daniel Defoe is reckoned to have been inspired to write his 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by the incredible true story of Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk.Fifteen years earlier he was marooned on the tiny uninhabited island of Mas a Tierra, 400 miles off Chile in the Pacific Ocean after falling out with the captain of the ship he was working on.Selkirk was left with little more than a musket, cooking pot, knife, a flask of rum and a Bible.Yet he managed to survive for four-and-a-half years hunting feral goats and harvesting wild turnips, despite being attacked by rats and once falling off a cliff.Eventually an English ship happened to anchor off the island to find supplies and picked him up.
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Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol is canceled by Peacock after just one season
NBC's streaming platform Peacock has opted not to renew its mystery thriller Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol for a second season, Deadline reported on Monday.The series served as a prequel to the popular series of film adaptations of Dan Brown's thrillers, which starred Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon.The Lost Symbol was previously intended as an NBC series, before it was shuffled over to the network's streamer. End of the road: NBC's streaming platform Peacock has opted not to renew its mystery thriller Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol for a second season, Deadline reported on Monday; (L–R) Valorie Curry, Eddie Izzard and Ashley Zukerman in The Lost Symbol'We were so proud to bring this action-packed mystery thriller to our members and enjoyed watching this compelling series unfold with a satisfying, complete story,' Peacock said in a statement to the publication.'We’re grateful to Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie, Dan Brown, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard along with CBS Studios, Imagine Television and UTV for bringing this international bestselling novel to life.' The Lost Symbol focused on the early career of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (played byAshley Zukerman), who was also the protagonist of The Da Vinci Code (2006), Angels & Demons (2009) and Inferno (2016), all of which starred Tom Hanks as the lead and were directed by Ron Howard.The series also featured Eddie Izzard, Valorie Curry, Sumalee Montano, Rick Gonzalez and Beau Knapp.
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Hanks is known for his comedic and dramatic roles in such films as Splash (1984), Bachelor Party (1984), Big (1988), Turner & Hooch (1989), A League of Their Own (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Forrest Gump (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), You've Got Mail (1998), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), Cloud Atlas (2012), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Sully (2016) and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). He has also starred in the Robert Langdon films, and voices Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series. He is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon.
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