460 episodes

• Kiri Te Kanawa

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  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Kiri Te Kanawa on her dramatic last-minute Metropolitan Opera debut

  Castaway · 8 March 1980·Roy Plomley

• Susannah York

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  Susannah York

  Susannah York on getting her first laugh in a school play aged nine

  Castaway · 1 March 1980·Roy Plomley

• Fay Weldon

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  Fay Weldon

  Fay Weldon on writing a television play while waiting for her second son to be born

  Castaway · 23 February 1980·Roy Plomley

• Timothy West

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  Timothy West

  How playing Edward VII made Timothy West expect doors to open for him

  Castaway · 16 February 1980·Roy Plomley

• Claudio Abbado

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  Claudio Abbado

  Claudio Abbado on deciding to become a conductor at age seven after hearing his first concert at La Scala

  Castaway · 9 February 1980·Roy Plomley

• Otto Preminger

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  Otto Preminger

  Otto Preminger on playing a nun at the Salzburg Festival

  Castaway · 2 February 1980·Roy Plomley

• Sir Cecil Beaton

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  Sir Cecil Beaton

  Cecil Beaton on first hearing the Merry Widow from a hurdy gurdy man aged five

  Castaway · 26 January 1980·Roy Plomley

• Dizzy Gillespie

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  Dizzy Gillespie

  Dizzy Gillespie on receiving a trombone from his school at age 11

  Castaway · 19 January 1980·Roy Plomley

• Sir Peter Parker

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  Sir Peter Parker

  Peter Parker on not reading Alice in Wonderland until about 30

  Castaway · 12 January 1980·Roy Plomley

• Reginald Goodall

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  Reginald Goodall

  Reginald Goodall on being a 'very bad Verdi conductor'

  Castaway · 5 January 1980·Roy Plomley