485 episodes

• Marion Stein

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  Marion Stein

  Castaway · 29 December 1973·Roy Plomley

• John Mills

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  John Mills

  John Mills on selling lavatory paper while secretly taking tap dancing lessons

  Castaway · 22 December 1973·Roy Plomley

• Alexander Young

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  Alexander Young

  Alexander Young on receiving a surprise telegram from Stravinsky

  Castaway · 15 December 1973·Roy Plomley

• Gareth Edwards

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  Gareth Edwards

  Gareth Edwards on his unpronounceable Welsh village

  Castaway · 8 December 1973·Roy Plomley

• Marghanita Laski

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  Marghanita Laski

  Castaway · 1 December 1973·Roy Plomley

• Vic Feather

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  Vic Feather

  Castaway · 17 November 1973·Roy Plomley

• Trevor Philpott

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  Trevor Philpott

  Castaway · 10 November 1973·Roy Plomley

• Arnold Ridley

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  Arnold Ridley

  Arnold Ridley on needing more makeup to look young enough

  Castaway · 3 November 1973·Roy Plomley

• Professor Sir Alister Hardy FRS

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  Professor Sir Alister Hardy FRS

  Alister Hardy on his theory that humans evolved from apes in the sea

  Castaway · 27 October 1973·Roy Plomley

• Peter Rogers

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  Peter Rogers

  Peter Rogers on giving audiences the licorice all sorts they want

  Castaway · 20 October 1973·Roy Plomley

• Edward Robey

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  Edward Robey

  How a murder trial at the Old Bailey in 1918 led Edward Robey to the law

  Castaway · 13 October 1973·Roy Plomley

• Mary Peters

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  Mary Peters

  Castaway · 6 October 1973·Roy Plomley

• Ian Hendry

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  Ian Hendry

  Castaway · 29 September 1973·Roy Plomley

• Leontyne Price

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  Leontyne Price

  Leontyne Price on being inspired by Marian Anderson at age nine

  Castaway · 22 September 1973·Roy Plomley

• Bill Sowerbutts

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  Bill Sowerbutts

  Bill Sowerbutts on a plum stone that supposedly produced an apple

  Castaway · 15 September 1973·Roy Plomley

• Joyce Carey

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  Joyce Carey

  Joyce Carey on writing a play under an aunt de plume

  Castaway · 8 September 1973·Roy Plomley

• Earl Wild

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  Earl Wild

  Castaway · 1 September 1973·Roy Plomley

• Bert Foord

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  Bert Foord

  Bert Foord on how a dislike of botany and zoology led him to meteorology

  Castaway · 25 August 1973·Roy Plomley

• June Whitfield

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  June Whitfield

  June Whitfield on her father's repeated advice about shorthand

  Castaway · 18 August 1973·Roy Plomley

• Gervase De Peyer

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  Gervase De Peyer

  Castaway · 11 August 1973·Roy Plomley

• Colin Welland

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  Colin Welland

  How the fear of marriage made Colin Welland quit teaching for the stage

  Castaway · 4 August 1973·Roy Plomley

• Ruskin Spear RA

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  Ruskin Spear RA

  Castaway · 28 July 1973·Roy Plomley

• Colonel Sir Michael Ansell

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  Colonel Sir Michael Ansell

  Castaway · 14 July 1973·Roy Plomley

• Wilfrid Van Wyck

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  Wilfrid Van Wyck

  Castaway · 7 July 1973·Roy Plomley

• Brenda Bruce

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  Brenda Bruce

  Brenda Bruce on her mother holding her knickers at the Coliseum aged three

  Castaway · 30 June 1973·Roy Plomley

• Georgie Fame

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  Georgie Fame

  Castaway · 23 June 1973·Roy Plomley

• Basil Dean

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  Basil Dean

  Castaway · 16 June 1973·Roy Plomley

• Joe Bugner

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  Joe Bugner

  Joe Bugner on carrying a machine gun as a six-year-old escaping Hungary

  Castaway · 9 June 1973·Roy Plomley

• Baroness Summerskill

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  Baroness Summerskill

  Castaway · 2 June 1973·Roy Plomley

• Joseph Cooper

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  Joseph Cooper

  How keeping a dummy keyboard helped Joseph Cooper prepare for rescue

  Castaway · 19 May 1973·Roy Plomley

• John Huston

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  John Huston

  How John Huston sang cowboy songs and slept on London's Embankment

  Castaway · 12 May 1973·Roy Plomley

• Norman Thelwell

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  Norman Thelwell

  How a corporal in the Welsh Guards broke Norman Thelwell's brushes and pencils

  Castaway · 5 May 1973·Roy Plomley

• Edith Coates

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  Edith Coates

  Edith Coates on the time a cat wandered on stage during Trovatore

  Castaway · 28 April 1973·Roy Plomley

• Chris Bonington

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  Chris Bonington

  Chris Bonington on living on potatoes for three months below the Eiger

  Castaway · 21 April 1973·Roy Plomley

• Harry Loman

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  Harry Loman

  Harry Loman on telling Fred Karno that Charlie Chaplin was a good boy

  Castaway · 14 April 1973·Roy Plomley

• Florence De Jong

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  Florence De Jong

  Florence De Jong on playing piano at a cinema after school

  Castaway · 7 April 1973·Roy Plomley

• Christopher Serpell

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  Christopher Serpell

  Castaway · 31 March 1973·Roy Plomley

• Cathleen Nesbitt

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  Cathleen Nesbitt

  Castaway · 24 March 1973·Roy Plomley

• George Melly

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  George Melly

  Castaway · 17 March 1973·Roy Plomley

• Dame Veronica Wedgwood OM

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  Dame Veronica Wedgwood OM

  Castaway · 10 March 1973·Roy Plomley

• Alexander Gibson

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  Alexander Gibson

  Alexander Gibson on being forced to join the conducting class

  Castaway · 3 March 1973·Roy Plomley

• Leslie Thomas

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  Leslie Thomas

  Leslie Thomas on his teacher mishearing ‘writer’ as ‘waiter’

  Castaway · 24 February 1973·Roy Plomley

• John Le Mesurier

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  John Le Mesurier

  John Le Mesurier on worrying when he's got nothing to worry about

  Castaway · 17 February 1973·Roy Plomley

• Rita Hunter

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  Rita Hunter

  Rita Hunter on singing the Dutchman at Covent Garden with her hair in curlers

  Castaway · 10 February 1973·Roy Plomley

• Anthony Smith

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  Anthony Smith

  Anthony Smith on his book Blind White Fish in Persia

  Castaway · 3 February 1973·Roy Plomley

• Robert Nesbitt

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  Robert Nesbitt

  Castaway · 27 January 1973·Roy Plomley

• Denise Robins

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  Denise Robins

  Denise Robins on typing her mother's manuscripts as a child

  Castaway · 20 January 1973·Roy Plomley

• Mike Yarwood

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  Mike Yarwood

  Mike Yarwood on being told by his headmaster he couldn't be a journalist

  Castaway · 13 January 1973·Roy Plomley

• Tony Britton

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  Tony Britton

  Tony Britton on being saved from the sack by a part in The Firstborn

  Castaway · 6 January 1973·Roy Plomley

• Noel Rawsthorne

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  Noel Rawsthorne

  Noel Rawsthorne on the organ that had no ignition key in Russia

  Castaway · 30 December 1972·Roy Plomley