485 episodes

• Nicolette Milnes-Walker

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  Nicolette Milnes-Walker

  Castaway · 13 November 1971·Roy Plomley

• Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Vivian Dunn

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  Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Vivian Dunn

  Vivian Dunn on beating retreat as the sun set over the sea from HMS Vanguard

  Castaway · 6 November 1971·Roy Plomley

• C A Joyce

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  C A Joyce

  Castaway · 30 October 1971·Roy Plomley

• Dame Sibyl Hathaway

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  Dame Sibyl Hathaway

  Sibyl Hathaway on why Sark still bans divorce and female dogs

  Castaway · 23 October 1971·Roy Plomley

• Ivy Benson

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  Ivy Benson

  How a clothing factory job helped Ivy Benson buy her first clarinet

  Castaway · 16 October 1971·Roy Plomley

• Sir Sacheverell Sitwell

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  Sir Sacheverell Sitwell

  Castaway · 9 October 1971·Roy Plomley

• Caterina Valente

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  Caterina Valente

  Caterina Valente on learning English by reading The Hound of the Baskervilles six times

  Castaway · 2 October 1971·Roy Plomley

• Mollie Lee

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  Mollie Lee

  Castaway · 25 September 1971·Roy Plomley

• Kenneth Allsop

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  Kenneth Allsop

  Castaway · 18 September 1971·Roy Plomley

• David Shepherd

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  David Shepherd

  David Shepherd on raising £46,000 in one evening for a poacher-catching helicopter

  Castaway · 11 September 1971·Roy Plomley

• Artur Rubinstein

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  Artur Rubinstein

  Artur Rubinstein on learning from Picasso that every day is a new life

  Castaway · 28 August 1971·Roy Plomley

• Sylva Stuart Watson

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  Sylva Stuart Watson

  How Sylva Stuart Watson encountered a ghost in her theatre box

  Castaway · 21 August 1971·Roy Plomley

• Richard Gordon

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  Richard Gordon

  How writing obituaries taught Richard Gordon to write fiction

  Castaway · 14 August 1971·Roy Plomley

• Lorin Maazel

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  Lorin Maazel

  How lollipops and short trousers greeted Lorin Maazel's first rehearsal at age eight

  Castaway · 31 July 1971·Roy Plomley

• James Laver

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  James Laver

  Castaway · 24 July 1971·Roy Plomley

• Laurence Whistler

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  Laurence Whistler

  How writing a poem on a window led Laurence Whistler to glass engraving

  Castaway · 10 July 1971·Roy Plomley

• Michael Crawford

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  Michael Crawford

  Michael Crawford on the first frontal nudity in Lambeth Town Hall

  Castaway · 3 July 1971·Roy Plomley

• Maurice Woodruff

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  Maurice Woodruff

  Maurice Woodruff on why he never tells a client they will die

  Castaway · 26 June 1971·Roy Plomley

• Clive Dunn

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  Clive Dunn

  Clive Dunn on singing Summertime to win a second tenor job

  Castaway · 19 June 1971·Roy Plomley

• Vernon Bartlett

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  Vernon Bartlett

  Castaway · 5 June 1971·Roy Plomley

• Ronnie Corbett

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  Ronnie Corbett

  Ronnie Corbett on his first job issuing animal feed coupons

  Castaway · 29 May 1971·Roy Plomley

• Joyce Grenfell

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  Joyce Grenfell

  Joyce Grenfell on receiving an anonymous letter about mocking Cockney accents

  Castaway · 22 May 1971·Roy Plomley

• John Braine

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  John Braine

  Castaway · 15 May 1971·Roy Plomley

• Reginald Foort

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  Reginald Foort

  Castaway · 8 May 1971·Roy Plomley

• Billie Whitelaw

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  Billie Whitelaw

  Castaway · 1 May 1971·Roy Plomley

• Mrs Mills

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  Mrs Mills

  Castaway · 17 April 1971·Roy Plomley

• Geoff Boycott

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  Geoff Boycott

  Geoff Boycott on teaching monkeys to bowl coconuts

  Castaway · 10 April 1971·Roy Plomley

• Peter Daubeny

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  Peter Daubeny

  Castaway · 3 April 1971·Roy Plomley

• Clodagh Rodgers

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  Clodagh Rodgers

  Clodagh Rodgers on her first public performance in knee socks aged twelve

  Castaway · 27 March 1971·Roy Plomley

• Sir Louis Gluckstein

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  Sir Louis Gluckstein

  Louis Gluckstein on how plastic devices defeated the Albert Hall's echo

  Castaway · 20 March 1971·Roy Plomley

• Patrick Cargill

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  Patrick Cargill

  Patrick Cargill on Noël Coward saying 'Bloody marvellous'

  Castaway · 13 March 1971·Roy Plomley

• Ludovic Kennedy

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  Ludovic Kennedy

  Ludovic Kennedy on reading about the Buck Ruxton case from a stepladder as a boy

  Castaway · 6 March 1971·Roy Plomley

• Ravi Shankar

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  Ravi Shankar

  Castaway · 27 February 1971·Roy Plomley

• Wendy Craig

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  Wendy Craig

  Wendy Craig on acting in her pram before ever going to the theatre

  Castaway · 20 February 1971·Roy Plomley

• Harvey Smith

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  Harvey Smith

  Harvey Smith on his first success in a novice competition at Nelson

  Castaway · 13 February 1971·Roy Plomley

• Alan Keith

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  Alan Keith

  Alan Keith on playing truant from school to go to the theatre

  Castaway · 6 February 1971·Roy Plomley

• Laurie Lee

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  Laurie Lee

  Laurie Lee on using his violin as a credit card to survive in Spain

  Castaway · 30 January 1971·Roy Plomley

• Lilian Stiles-Allen

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  Lilian Stiles-Allen

  Castaway · 25 January 1971·Roy Plomley

• Madame Stiles-Allen (Lilian)

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  Madame (Lilian) Stiles-Allen

  How a levitating feeling during a BBC broadcast told Stiles-Allen of Chaliapin's death

  Castaway · 23 January 1971·Roy Plomley

• Robert Bolt

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  Robert Bolt

  Robert Bolt on meeting his former teacher in St Peter's Square

  Castaway · 16 January 1971·Roy Plomley

• James Fitton

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  James Fitton

  James Fitton on ignoring the outline and filling the blank page

  Castaway · 9 January 1971·Roy Plomley

• Quentin Poole

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  Quentin Poole

  Quentin Poole on keeping order in the crocodile

  Castaway · 26 December 1970·Roy Plomley

• Ivan Mauger

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  Ivan Mauger

  Castaway · 19 December 1970·Roy Plomley

• Arthur Lowe

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  Arthur Lowe

  How staging a play in the Sinai Desert launched Arthur Lowe's theatre career

  Castaway · 12 December 1970·Roy Plomley

• Wally Herbert

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  Wally Herbert

  Castaway · 5 December 1970·Roy Plomley

• Diana Rigg

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  Diana Rigg

  Castaway · 28 November 1970·Roy Plomley

• Margaret Powell

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  Margaret Powell

  Castaway · 14 November 1970·Roy Plomley

• Vilem Tausky

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  Vilem Tausky

  Castaway · 7 November 1970·Roy Plomley

• Joan Whittington

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  Joan Whittington

  Castaway · 31 October 1970·Roy Plomley

• John Lill

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  John Lill

  John Lill on jumping in an aircraft to play anything, anywhere in an emergency

  Castaway · 24 October 1970·Roy Plomley