136 episodes

• Errollyn Wallen

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  Errollyn Wallen

  Errollyn Wallen on dreaming of the piano as a child

  Castaway · 14 July 2024·Lauren Laverne

• Stanley Tucci

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  Stanley Tucci

  Stanley Tucci on being shocked by the erotic reaction to his negroni clip

  Castaway · 2 July 2023·Lauren Laverne

• Jeremy Bowen

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  Jeremy Bowen

  Jeremy Bowen on hearing his first shots in war and feeling excited

  Castaway · 4 June 2023·Lauren Laverne

• Cate Blanchett

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  Cate Blanchett

  How a Muppet movie screening told Cate Blanchett her father had died

  Castaway · 11 December 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Richard Wilson

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  Richard Wilson

  Richard Wilson on his drama teacher telling him he couldn't speak properly

  Castaway · 20 June 2021·Lauren Laverne

• Sir Keir Starmer

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  Sir Keir Starmer

  Keir Starmer on his mother never speaking to his children

  Castaway · 15 November 2020·Lauren Laverne

• Rupert Everett

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  Rupert Everett

  How John Schlesinger fell asleep while Rupert Everett pitched a script

  Castaway · 5 January 2020·Lauren Laverne

• Nadiya Hussain

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  Nadiya Hussain

  Nadiya Hussain on the stranger who said her Bake Off final helped her leave the house

  Castaway · 14 August 2016·Kirsty Young

• Bryan Stevenson

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  Bryan Stevenson

  Bryan Stevenson on the death row prisoner who sang a hymn that changed his life

  Castaway · 8 March 2015·Kirsty Young

• Professor Angie Hobbs

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  Professor Angie Hobbs

  Angie Hobbs on feeling the exact moment her sister died

  Castaway · 1 February 2015·Kirsty Young

• Biddy Baxter

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  Biddy Baxter

  Biddy Baxter on being told nobody from Durham had ever joined the BBC

  Castaway · 1 June 2014·Kirsty Young

• Sir Mervyn King

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  Sir Mervyn King

  Mervyn King on celebrating Bank independence alone with Eddie George

  Castaway · 2 June 2013·Kirsty Young

• Sir Terry Leahy

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  Sir Terry Leahy

  Terry Leahy on being the class clown at school

  Castaway · 3 February 2013·Kirsty Young

• Aung San Suu Kyi

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  Aung San Suu Kyi

  How Aung San Suu Kyi refused to visit her dying husband

  Castaway · 27 January 2013·Kirsty Young

• James Ellroy

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  James Ellroy

  James Ellroy on the relief he felt when his mother was murdered

  Castaway · 17 January 2010·Kirsty Young

• Marcus du Sautoy

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  Marcus du Sautoy

  Marcus du Sautoy on a teacher with a cigar who showed him the real maths

  Castaway · 7 December 2008·Kirsty Young

• Randy Newman

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  Randy Newman

  Randy Newman on receiving a death threat over 'Short People'

  Castaway · 19 October 2008·Kirsty Young

• Antonio Carluccio

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  Antonio Carluccio

  Antonio Carluccio on the sad state of Italian food when he arrived in London

  Castaway · 6 July 2008·Kirsty Young

• Penelope Wilton

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  Penelope Wilton

  Penelope Wilton on the warm air from a pantomime stage that made her want to act

  Castaway · 30 March 2008·Kirsty Young

• Simon Rattle

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  Simon Rattle

  Simon Rattle on his year at Oxford without listening to music

  Castaway · 13 January 2008·Kirsty Young

• Joanna Lumley

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  Joanna Lumley

  Joanna Lumley on being put in a private hospital room because she had no male visitor

  Castaway · 13 May 2007·Kirsty Young

• Michael Winner

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  Michael Winner

  Michael Winner on how his father put up with his mother: dying at 65

  Castaway · 9 October 2005·Sue Lawley

• Rt Hon Sir Menzies Campbell MP

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  Rt Hon Sir Menzies Campbell MP

  Menzies Campbell on the moment he was told he had a malignant tumour

  Castaway · 17 October 2004·Sue Lawley

• Dorothy Rowe

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  Dorothy Rowe

  Dorothy Rowe on her mother threatening to kill her and herself

  Castaway · 24 March 2002·Sue Lawley

• Bob Worcester

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  Bob Worcester

  Bob Worcester on sacking Robert Maxwell for trying to bury poll results

  Castaway · 20 January 2002·Sue Lawley

• Sir Stanley Kalms

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  Sir Stanley Kalms

  Stanley Kalms on his headmaster saying he was lucky to pass his exams

  Castaway · 1 July 2001·Sue Lawley

• Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe MP

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  Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe MP

  Ann Widdecombe on taking a risk with an unscripted party conference speech

  Castaway · 27 June 1999·Sue Lawley

• John Barry

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  John Barry

  John Barry on being carried into a cinema at age two to see a mouse

  Castaway · 13 June 1999·Sue Lawley

• Chris Haskins

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  Chris Haskins

  Chris Haskins on getting paid £5 to write about the Aldermaston march

  Castaway · 14 December 1997·Sue Lawley

• Nina Campbell

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  Nina Campbell

  Nina Campbell on not being able to make a pair of curtains

  Castaway · 16 March 1997·Sue Lawley

• John Cleese

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  John Cleese

  John Cleese on fleeing the Footlights desk in confusion

  Castaway · 5 January 1997·Sue Lawley

• Professor Colin Blakemore

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  Professor Colin Blakemore

  Colin Blakemore on developing a stomach ulcer at the age of eleven

  Castaway · 8 September 1996·Sue Lawley

• André Previn

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  André Previn

  How a former client in the SS helped André Previn's family flee Nazi Germany

  Castaway · 18 August 1996·Sue Lawley

• Viscount Rothermere

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  Viscount Rothermere

  Viscount Rothermere on his sinking heart at the prospect of a life of hunting and shooting

  Castaway · 14 April 1996·Sue Lawley

• Neil Simon

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  Neil Simon

  Neil Simon on his brother predicting at age 15 he’d be America’s best comedy writer

  Castaway · 14 May 1995·Sue Lawley

• Pete Waterman

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  Pete Waterman

  How an astrologer led Pete Waterman to sleep in a vocal booth

  Castaway · 30 April 1995·Sue Lawley

• Nigel Nicolson

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  Nigel Nicolson

  Nigel Nicolson on Virginia Woolf asking about his school lies

  Castaway · 12 March 1995·Sue Lawley

• Frances Partridge

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  Frances Partridge

  Frances Partridge on losing her faith in a seaside boarding house aged 11

  Castaway · 27 February 1994·Sue Lawley

• Taki

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  Taki

  Taki on trading his Christmas sugar ration for paper hankies in prison

  Castaway · 28 November 1993·Sue Lawley

• Peter Mayle

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  Peter Mayle

  How Peter Mayle coined the 'Nice One, Cyril' catchphrase

  Castaway · 4 July 1993·Sue Lawley

• Lord Weinstock

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  Lord Weinstock

  Arnold Weinstock on being sent with a label and gas mask to the wilds of Warwickshire

  Castaway · 23 May 1993·Sue Lawley

• John Boorman

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  John Boorman

  John Boorman on being turned down as a clapper boy

  Castaway · 2 May 1993·Sue Lawley

• Richard Gregory

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  Richard Gregory

  How a design flaw in his Flying Flea plane nearly killed Richard Gregory

  Castaway · 4 April 1993·Sue Lawley

• Lord Tebbit

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  Lord Tebbit

  Norman Tebbit on the moment the Brighton bomb brought down his hotel room

  Castaway · 29 November 1992·Sue Lawley

• Gavin Laird

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  Gavin Laird

  Gavin Laird on wealthy families offering to take the dog instead of evacuee children

  Castaway · 25 October 1992·Sue Lawley

• Vivienne Westwood

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  Vivienne Westwood

  Vivienne Westwood on being branded a sex maniac at the age of four

  Castaway · 28 June 1992·Sue Lawley

• Michael Grade

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  Michael Grade

  Michael Grade on being shocked by anti-Semitism and bullying at public school

  Castaway · 17 May 1992·Sue Lawley

• Alan Alda

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  Alan Alda

  How Alan Alda's mother saved his life from polio

  Castaway · 27 October 1991·Sue Lawley

• Derek Walcott

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  Derek Walcott

  How a letter from Robert Graves moved Derek Walcott to tears

  Castaway · 9 June 1991·Sue Lawley

• Naomi Mitchison

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  Naomi Mitchison

  Naomi Mitchison on writing novels on the London Underground

  Castaway · 7 April 1991·Sue Lawley