Anna Maxwell Martin
Anna Maxwell Martin on being picked up in a car, taken to a caravan and asked to take all her clothes off
Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Artist
69 episodes
Chosen over the decades
69
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
6
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Anna Maxwell Martin on being picked up in a car, taken to a caravan and asked to take all her clothes off
Marina Abramović on the moment the public put a loaded pistol in her hand
George McGavin on the Attenborough programme about spider sex that captivated him as a child
Nicole Farhi on sculpting a head of Thomas Gainsborough for Gainsborough House
Blanche Marvin on being killed off as Superman’s girlfriend to meet a man in Paris
Martina Navratilova on her father telling her at age eight she would win Wimbledon
Mary Portas on her tearful supermarket encounter with her father's second wife
How Nicky Haslam went to work with a face the size of a football after a facelift
Edna O'Brien on her mother burying a censored copy of The Country Girls in a field
Fay Maschler on being caught in disguise as Shirley Bassey by Marco Pierre White
Ken Livingstone on being greeted by the deputy whip as a horrible little monster
Michael Grade on being shocked by anti-Semitism and bullying at public school
Diana Mosley on missing three and a half years of her children's lives in prison
Salman Rushdie on the triple whammy of being bad at games, good at studies, and foreign
Bamber Gascoigne on the paralysing boredom that made him give up acting
Joanna Lumley on being sent to boarding school where she could be 'bad solidly for three months'
Bruce Oldfield on leaving New York on a bus with his tail between his legs