Professor Dame Pamela Shaw
Pamela Shaw on her headmistress telling her young ladies didn't need physics and chemistry
Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Composer
606 episodes
Chosen over the decades
606
Total castaways
1990s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Pamela Shaw on her headmistress telling her young ladies didn't need physics and chemistry
Emily Watson on being told to ‘go on your undignified way’ by her religious group
Jojo Moyes on discovering in her twenties that her parents planned to have her adopted
Alf Dubs on the policewoman who asked if his speech would make any difference
How a two-week-old nettle stem helped Patricia Wiltshire catch a murderer
Clive Myrie on his mother being turned away from a Catholic church because of her address
Sheku Kanneh-Mason on why he didn't stay for 'Rule Britannia' at the Proms
Marina Abramović on the moment the public put a loaded pistol in her hand
Stanley Tucci on being shocked by the erotic reaction to his negroni clip
How a maiden speakers debate gave Dara Ó Briain his first laugh from strangers
Corinne Le Quéré on bringing 100,000-year-old ice that pops like Rice Krispies
Angela Gallop on taking a Buzz Lightyear toy to a police lecture
Brenda Hale on why she wore a spider brooch for the prorogation judgment
Simon Wessely on being banned from a Spanish holiday because of fascism
Averil Mansfield on repeatedly removing her toy panda's appendix
Charles Hazlewood on revealing his childhood sexual abuse for the first time
Ian Wright on his brother covering his ears to protect him from their stepfather
Russell Foster on his headmaster describing him as entirely non-academic
Sally Davies on sitting all night with a young woman drowning in her own lung fluid
Derren Brown on his student phase as a 'gay leisure pirate' reading Nietzsche in a cave
Margaret MacMillan on finding Winston Churchill's scribbled comments in a pre-WWI document
How a chance encounter in a bookshop sent Carlos Frenk's family to Mexico
Chi-chi Nwanoku on her parents seeing a sign that said 'no blacks, no dogs, no Irish'
Garry Kasparov on his mother refusing to let him quit during a losing match
Christina Lamb on women in Aleppo frying flour sandwiches to feed their children
James MacMillan on leaving a Young Communist League conference to attend Mass
Gareth Malone on the painful moment he couldn't sing, with his father and teacher joining in
Carol Black on beating Dame Mary Archer by eleven seconds in the Great Dames Race