5 episodes

• Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP

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  Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP

  How a sudden break of sun among pine trees in a Citroën made Eric Pickles perfectly happy

  Castaway · 9 December 2012·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

• Mary Midgley

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  Mary Midgley

  Mary Midgley on witnessing Hitler enter Vienna in 1938

  Castaway · 20 November 2005·Sue Lawley

• Sir Thomas Allen

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  Sir Thomas Allen

  Thomas Allen on getting a call to sing Figaro with 45 minutes' notice

  Castaway · 3 June 2001·Sue Lawley

• Brian Blessed

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  Brian Blessed

  Brian Blessed on refusing oxygen on Everest to feel the mountain

  Castaway · 4 June 1995·Sue Lawley