485 episodes

• John Curry

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  John Curry

  John Curry on winning the Hop, Skip and a Jump Competition

  Castaway · 12 February 1977·Roy Plomley

• Barry Tuckwell

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  Barry Tuckwell

  How Barry Tuckwell joined the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as third horn at 15

  Castaway · 5 February 1977·Roy Plomley

• Roy Dotrice

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  Roy Dotrice

  Roy Dotrice on playing female roles in a POW camp

  Castaway · 29 January 1977·Roy Plomley

• Michael Holroyd

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  Michael Holroyd

  Michael Holroyd on arguing so persuasively his father told him to profit from it

  Castaway · 22 January 1977·Roy Plomley

• James Blades

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  James Blades

  James Blades on singing Ding boom boom boom to join the cathedral choir

  Castaway · 15 January 1977·Roy Plomley

• Robert Dougall

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  Robert Dougall

  Robert Dougall on watching wax models writhe in a fire during the Blitz

  Castaway · 8 January 1977·Roy Plomley

• Kenneth McKellar

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  Kenneth McKellar

  Kenneth McKellar on leaving forestry for a singing scholarship at the Royal College of Music

  Castaway · 1 January 1977·Roy Plomley

• Charlie Cairoli

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  Charlie Cairoli

  Charlie Cairoli on his father’s verdict after his first performance

  Castaway · 25 December 1976·Roy Plomley

• Sir Denys Lasdun

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  Sir Denys Lasdun

  Denys Lasdun on his horse being confiscated by the military police

  Castaway · 18 December 1976·Roy Plomley

• Gemma Jones

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  Gemma Jones

  Gemma Jones on being a queen's guide

  Castaway · 11 December 1976·Roy Plomley

• Igor Kipnis

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  Igor Kipnis

  Igor Kipnis on falling for the harpsichord after hearing Landowska

  Castaway · 4 December 1976·Roy Plomley

• Eric Idle

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  Eric Idle

  Eric Idle on being banned in Rutland

  Castaway · 27 November 1976·Roy Plomley

• Anna Moffo

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  Anna Moffo

  How Anna Moffo went from Little Miss Muffet to overnight star

  Castaway · 20 November 1976·Roy Plomley

• Christopher Milne

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  Christopher Milne

  Christopher Milne on the weekly moment his singing voice dominated in chapel

  Castaway · 13 November 1976·Roy Plomley

• Anthony Quayle

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  Anthony Quayle

  Anthony Quayle on his first taste of money from a musical sketch with Naylor Grimson

  Castaway · 6 November 1976·Roy Plomley

• Lt-Colonel John Blashford-Snell

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  Lt-Colonel John Blashford-Snell

  John Blashford-Snell on forming a private army at 14 to defend Herefordshire

  Castaway · 30 October 1976·Roy Plomley

• Norman Bailey

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  Norman Bailey

  How Norman Bailey would use a pocket calculator to count grains of sand

  Castaway · 23 October 1976·Roy Plomley

• Anthony Powell

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  Anthony Powell

  Anthony Powell on cleaning ink pots in a publisher's office where convicts were better treated

  Castaway · 16 October 1976·Roy Plomley

• Alan Bates

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  Alan Bates

  Alan Bates on the poor opening notices for Look Back in Anger

  Castaway · 9 October 1976·Roy Plomley

• Frank Muir

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  Frank Muir

  How claiming to organise concert parties got Frank Muir out of RAF guard duty

  Castaway · 2 October 1976·Roy Plomley

• Peter Quennell

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  Peter Quennell

  Peter Quennell on being sacked from the fire service for smoking on a fire

  Castaway · 25 September 1976·Roy Plomley

• David Wilkie

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  David Wilkie

  David Wilkie on kicking air at the start and losing the 100m final

  Castaway · 18 September 1976·Roy Plomley

• Michael Bond

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  Michael Bond

  Michael Bond on missing a bus and buying the bear that became Paddington

  Castaway · 11 September 1976·Roy Plomley

• George Cole

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  George Cole

  How shoveling coal made a man of George Cole

  Castaway · 4 September 1976·Roy Plomley

• Tolchard Evans

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  Tolchard Evans

  How a publisher warned Tolchard Evans not to buy sports cars and live with women

  Castaway · 28 August 1976·Roy Plomley

• Penelope Keith

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  Penelope Keith

  Penelope Keith on the sewing machine needle that ended her piano playing

  Castaway · 21 August 1976·Roy Plomley

• James Galway

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  James Galway

  James Galway on being forced by German law to take a job he won

  Castaway · 14 August 1976·Roy Plomley

• Melvyn Bragg

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  Melvyn Bragg

  Melvyn Bragg on being addicted to reading anything from sauce bottles to the Old Testament

  Castaway · 7 August 1976·Roy Plomley

• George Guest

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  George Guest

  George Guest on why he would barely last a week on a desert island

  Castaway · 31 July 1976·Roy Plomley

• Mel Torme

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  Mel Torme

  Mel Torme on how 'Mountain Greenery' became a UK number one after being cut from a film

  Castaway · 24 July 1976·Roy Plomley

• Philip Larkin

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  Philip Larkin

  Philip Larkin on spending months in the Bodleian Library stacks

  Castaway · 17 July 1976·Roy Plomley

• Alan Pascoe

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  Alan Pascoe

  Alan Pascoe on why he switched to the 400m hurdles rather than take drugs

  Castaway · 10 July 1976·Roy Plomley

• Most Rev Rt Hon Stuart Blanch

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  Most Rev Rt Hon Stuart Blanch

  Stuart Blanch on being accepted at the first Church of England selection conference in Calcutta

  Castaway · 3 July 1976·Roy Plomley

• Philip Jones

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  Philip Jones

  Philip Jones on writing tunes for brass instruments to attack boredom

  Castaway · 26 June 1976·Roy Plomley

• Len Deighton

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  Len Deighton

  How a blatant lie about German helped Len Deighton get a job at BOAC

  Castaway · 19 June 1976·Roy Plomley

• Malcolm Williamson

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  Malcolm Williamson

  How treading on a lady’s foot ended Malcolm Williamson’s conducting career

  Castaway · 12 June 1976·Roy Plomley

• Eric Simms

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  Eric Simms

  How Eric Simms hauled 1,800 feet of cable up a cliff to record a golden eagle

  Castaway · 5 June 1976·Roy Plomley

• Douglas Fairbanks Jnr

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  Douglas Fairbanks Jnr

  Douglas Fairbanks Jnr on being sacked from his first film job at 13

  Castaway · 29 May 1976·Roy Plomley

• Tony Greig

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  Tony Greig

  How a garden boy nicknamed Tackies taught Tony Greig cricket

  Castaway · 22 May 1976·Roy Plomley

• John Laurie

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  John Laurie

  How John Laurie was carried from Passchendale on a stretcher, unwounded

  Castaway · 15 May 1976·Roy Plomley

• John Napier

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  John Napier

  John Napier on his mother forbidding him from becoming an actor

  Castaway · 8 May 1976·Roy Plomley

• Sir William Gladstone

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  Sir William Gladstone

  William Gladstone on drinking his family's wine cellar in ten years

  Castaway · 1 May 1976·Roy Plomley

• Glynis Johns

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  Glynis Johns

  Glynis Johns on making her first stage appearance at a few days old

  Castaway · 24 April 1976·Roy Plomley

• Dr Christiaan Barnard

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  Dr Christiaan Barnard

  Christiaan Barnard on the loneliness after his first transplant patient died

  Castaway · 17 April 1976·Roy Plomley

• John Pardoe

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  John Pardoe

  John Pardoe on how Suez made him so angry he entered politics

  Castaway · 10 April 1976·Roy Plomley

• Charlotte Rampling

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  Charlotte Rampling

  How seeing herself in Rotten to the Core left Charlotte Rampling in tears

  Castaway · 3 April 1976·Roy Plomley

• Paul Theroux

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  Paul Theroux

  How Paul Theroux tried being Robinson Crusoe on Lamu island

  Castaway · 27 March 1976·Roy Plomley

• Rosina Harrison

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  Rosina Harrison

  Rosina Harrison on catching a fish she never got to eat

  Castaway · 20 March 1976·Roy Plomley

• Noel Barber

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  Noel Barber

  Noel Barber on a 105-year-old man who apologised for being late after a four-mile walk

  Castaway · 13 March 1976·Roy Plomley

• Vincent Brome

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  Vincent Brome

  Vincent Brome on wanting an inflatable woman to write on

  Castaway · 6 March 1976·Roy Plomley