424 episodes

• Bill Morris

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  Bill Morris

  Bill Morris on being told sawdust grows on trees

  Castaway · 22 November 1998·Sue Lawley

• Nicole Kidman

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  Nicole Kidman

  Nicole Kidman on her naked handshake deal with Sam Mendes

  Castaway · 15 November 1998·Sue Lawley

• Joseph Rotblat

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  Joseph Rotblat

  Joseph Rotblat on being told the bomb was to subdue the Russians

  Castaway · 8 November 1998·Sue Lawley

• Paul Daniel

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  Paul Daniel

  Paul Daniel on conducting Fidelio on seven hours' notice

  Castaway · 1 November 1998·Sue Lawley

• Lucy Gannon

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  Lucy Gannon

  Lucy Gannon on a friend's memory of her writing poems while playing with birds

  Castaway · 30 August 1998·Sue Lawley

• Ralph Koltai

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  Ralph Koltai

  How a badly painted sign led Ralph Koltai to art school

  Castaway · 23 August 1998·Sue Lawley

• Les Murray

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  Les Murray

  Les Murray on digging depression out of himself with a pen

  Castaway · 16 August 1998·Sue Lawley

• David Hempleman Adams

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  David Hempleman Adams

  David Hempleman Adams on using a Margaret Thatcher book as toilet paper

  Castaway · 9 August 1998·Sue Lawley

• Ralph Steadman

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  Ralph Steadman

  Ralph Steadman on drawing politicians' knees as a mark of disrespect

  Castaway · 2 August 1998·Sue Lawley

• Chris De Burgh

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  Chris De Burgh

  Chris De Burgh on not wanting to be a grandfather saying he could have been a great singer

  Castaway · 26 July 1998·Sue Lawley

• Howard Brenton

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  Howard Brenton

  Howard Brenton on the scene that outraged Mary Whitehouse

  Castaway · 19 July 1998·Sue Lawley

• Rt Hon Jack Straw MP

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  Rt Hon Jack Straw MP

  Jack Straw on sitting on a suspect until the police arrived

  Castaway · 12 July 1998·Sue Lawley

• Sybille Bedford

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  Sybille Bedford

  Sybille Bedford on growing potatoes on the lawns while the cellar stayed full of claret

  Castaway · 5 July 1998·Sue Lawley

• Jack Rosenthal

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  Jack Rosenthal

  Jack Rosenthal on the game of Consequences that exposed his wartime landlady

  Castaway · 28 June 1998·Sue Lawley

• John Bird

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  John Bird

  John Bird on meeting a large-nosed Scotsman in a pub while on the run

  Castaway · 21 June 1998·Sue Lawley

• Bill Kenwright

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  Bill Kenwright

  Bill Kenwright on giving his mother and aunt postcards that made them cry

  Castaway · 14 June 1998·Sue Lawley

• Geoffrey Smith

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  Geoffrey Smith

  Geoffrey Smith on deciding at 14 to never work inside

  Castaway · 7 June 1998·Sue Lawley

• John Harle

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  John Harle

  John Harle on the relief and freedom of switching from clarinet to saxophone

  Castaway · 24 May 1998·Sue Lawley

• Sir David Willcocks

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  Sir David Willcocks

  David Willcocks on being conducted by Elgar as a ten-year-old choir boy

  Castaway · 17 May 1998·Sue Lawley

• Antony Gormley

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  Antony Gormley

  Antony Gormley on his wife giving him 'birth' through plaster body casts

  Castaway · 10 May 1998·Sue Lawley

• Susan Blackmore

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  Susan Blackmore

  Susan Blackmore on her out-of-body experience at Oxford

  Castaway · 3 May 1998·Sue Lawley

• Sir Ernest Hall

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  Sir Ernest Hall

  Ernest Hall on being mesmerised by a wind-up gramophone aged eight

  Castaway · 26 April 1998·Sue Lawley

• Sir Terry Frost

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  Sir Terry Frost

  Terry Frost on trading caricatures for goods in a POW camp

  Castaway · 19 April 1998·Sue Lawley

• Judi Dench

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  Judi Dench

  How seeing King Lear at Stratford led Judi Dench to become an actor

  Castaway · 12 April 1998·Sue Lawley

• Gavin Bryars

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  Gavin Bryars

  Gavin Bryars on finding a tramp's recording that became Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

  Castaway · 5 April 1998·Sue Lawley

• Alice Thomas Ellis

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  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Alice Thomas Ellis on adopting a pen name to roar anonymously

  Castaway · 29 March 1998·Sue Lawley

• Andrew Motion

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  Andrew Motion

  Andrew Motion on the Hardy poem that made the hair on his neck stand up

  Castaway · 22 March 1998·Sue Lawley

• Ian Stewart

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  Ian Stewart

  How a broken collarbone saved Ian Stewart for mathematics

  Castaway · 15 March 1998·Sue Lawley

• Sir Anthony Dowell

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  Sir Anthony Dowell

  Anthony Dowell on having his knees inspected by Dame Ninette de Valois

  Castaway · 8 March 1998·Sue Lawley

• Archie Norman MP

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  Archie Norman MP

  Archie Norman on creating a standing room to prevent dozing during meetings

  Castaway · 1 March 1998·Sue Lawley

• David Pountney

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  David Pountney

  David Pountney on hearing Fidelio from a barn crossbeam at age five

  Castaway · 22 February 1998·Sue Lawley

• Richard Noble

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  Richard Noble

  Richard Noble on seeing John Cobb's Crusader as a boy

  Castaway · 15 February 1998·Sue Lawley

• Colin Dexter

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  Colin Dexter

  Colin Dexter on Lord Harding of Penshurst offering to publish his first Morse novel within 24 hours

  Castaway · 1 February 1998·Sue Lawley

• Helena Kennedy QC

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  Helena Kennedy QC

  Helena Kennedy on having her mini skirt questioned at Gray's Inn

  Castaway · 25 January 1998·Sue Lawley

• John Tomlinson

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  John Tomlinson

  John Tomlinson on suggesting James Morris for the role of Wotan

  Castaway · 18 January 1998·Sue Lawley

• Paul Hogarth

  13°07′S 112°17′W

  Paul Hogarth

  Paul Hogarth on his father standing outside his exhibition

  Castaway · 11 January 1998·Sue Lawley

• Professor Heinz Wolff

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  Professor Heinz Wolff

  Heinz Wolff on making Richard Dimbleby squeal with a swallowed radio transmitter

  Castaway · 4 January 1998·Sue Lawley

• Glenda Jackson MP

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  Glenda Jackson MP

  Glenda Jackson on polishing her Oscar to find base metal underneath

  Castaway · 28 December 1997·Sue Lawley

• Sir Harry Secombe

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  Sir Harry Secombe

  How taking off his glasses helped Harry Secombe overcome stage fright

  Castaway · 21 December 1997·Sue Lawley

• Chris Haskins

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  Chris Haskins

  Chris Haskins on getting paid £5 to write about the Aldermaston march

  Castaway · 14 December 1997·Sue Lawley

• Paula Rego

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  Paula Rego

  Paula Rego on being alarmed by the smell of naked flesh in the life room

  Castaway · 7 December 1997·Sue Lawley

• Loyd Grossman

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  Loyd Grossman

  How being mistaken for Bevis Hillier got Loyd Grossman on TV

  Castaway · 30 November 1997·Sue Lawley

• Thelma Holt

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  Thelma Holt

  Thelma Holt on rescuing the Roundhouse with 40 rock concerts

  Castaway · 23 November 1997·Sue Lawley

• Anthony Minghella

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  Anthony Minghella

  Anthony Minghella on sending actors home from Italy

  Castaway · 9 November 1997·Sue Lawley

• John Julius Norwich

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  John Julius Norwich

  John Julius Norwich on leaving Venice with a haunting sense of regret

  Castaway · 2 November 1997·Sue Lawley

• Richard Mabey

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  Richard Mabey

  How a bluebell wood made Richard Mabey feel like wading underwater

  Castaway · 26 October 1997·Sue Lawley

• Richard Rodney Bennett

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  Richard Rodney Bennett

  How Pierre Boulez took Richard Rodney Bennett apart

  Castaway · 19 October 1997·Sue Lawley

• Rose Tremain

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  Rose Tremain

  Rose Tremain on filling a vacuum created by her father's leaving home

  Castaway · 12 October 1997·Sue Lawley

• Jools Holland

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  Jools Holland

  Jools Holland on playing piano in pubs for £7.50 a night

  Castaway · 5 October 1997·Sue Lawley

• Peter O'Sullevan

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  Peter O'Sullevan

  How the Blitz cured Peter O'Sullevan's acne-induced loneliness

  Castaway · 28 September 1997·Sue Lawley