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From: Birmingham Mail
Date: 20051109
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DANIEL Defoe's Robinson Crusoe has inspired countless productions over the years - such as the blockbusting Cast Away starring Tom Hanks - but this latest tale of people stranded on a desert island has taken a somewhat surreal twist.

For weeks, viewers have been hooked as the mismatched group of plane-crash survivors have fought mother nature and each other, not to mention their mysterious fellow inhabitants.

In each edition, we've been privy to prior events in their lives, including Jack's (Matthew Fox) estrangement from his surgeon father, Kate's (Evangeline Lilly) ...

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