8 episodes

• Professor Sir Simon Wessely

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  Professor Sir Simon Wessely

  Simon Wessely on being banned from a Spanish holiday because of fascism

  Castaway · 28 March 2021·Lauren Laverne

• Minette Walters

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  Minette Walters

  Minette Walters on the neighbour who told her to do something with her day

  Castaway · 30 June 2002·Sue Lawley

• Clare Hollingworth

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  Clare Hollingworth

  Clare Hollingworth on the gust of wind that revealed Nazi tanks

  Castaway · 10 January 1999·Sue Lawley

• Sir Peregrine Worsthorne

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  Sir Peregrine Worsthorne

  How a four-letter word on TV cost Peregrine Worsthorne the Sunday Telegraph editorship

  Castaway · 19 July 1992·Sue Lawley

• Lucinda Lambton

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  Lucinda Lambton

  Lucinda Lambton on swimming to an island with a saw between her teeth

  Castaway · 1 October 1989·Sue Lawley

• John Ridgway

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  John Ridgway

  John Ridgway on seeing his friend's face in a child he adopted

  Castaway · 23 November 1986·Michael Parkinson

• Dr Catherine Gavin

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  Dr Catherine Gavin

  Catherine Gavin on the grenadier guards saluting de Gaulle in liberated Paris

  Castaway · 24 June 1978·Roy Plomley

• Professor Sir Denis Brogan

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  Professor Sir Denis Brogan

  Denis Brogan on writing a letter while answering a Round Britain Quiz question

  Castaway · 21 October 1967·Roy Plomley