424 episodes

• Nigel Nicolson

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  Nigel Nicolson

  Nigel Nicolson on Virginia Woolf asking about his school lies

  Castaway · 12 March 1995·Sue Lawley

• Professor Eric Hobsbawm

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  Professor Eric Hobsbawm

  Eric Hobsbawm on a cause that has plainly failed

  Castaway · 5 March 1995·Sue Lawley

• Christopher Lee

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  Christopher Lee

  Christopher Lee on being told he was playing all the parts in the play

  Castaway · 26 February 1995·Sue Lawley

• Jimmy Knapp

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  Jimmy Knapp

  Jimmy Knapp on having to put his coat on to use the toilet at night as a boy

  Castaway · 19 February 1995·Sue Lawley

• Sir Adrian Cadbury

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  Sir Adrian Cadbury

  Adrian Cadbury on losing the Olympic rowing final by twelve feet

  Castaway · 29 January 1995·Sue Lawley

• Dr Richard Dawkins

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  Dr Richard Dawkins

  Richard Dawkins on comparing God to Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy

  Castaway · 22 January 1995·Sue Lawley

• Phil Redmond

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  Phil Redmond

  Phil Redmond on vetoing a glue sniffing storyline for Grange Hill

  Castaway · 15 January 1995·Sue Lawley

• Patricia Hodge

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  Patricia Hodge

  Patricia Hodge on seeing Where the Rainbow Ends at age ten

  Castaway · 8 January 1995·Sue Lawley

• Alan Clark

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  Alan Clark

  How Alan Clark nearly became Defence Secretary until Saddam invaded Kuwait

  Castaway · 1 January 1995·Sue Lawley

• David Jason OBE

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  David Jason OBE

  David Jason on a lonely Christmas dinner in a panto boarding house

  Castaway · 25 December 1994·Sue Lawley

• Penelope Hobhouse

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  Penelope Hobhouse

  Penelope Hobhouse on writing her first book after buying a typewriter at Woolworths

  Castaway · 18 December 1994·Sue Lawley

• Margaret Foster

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  Margaret Foster

  Castaway · 4 December 1994·Sue Lawley

• Margaret Forster

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  Margaret Forster

  Margaret Forster on her hit novel being an albatross round her neck

  Castaway · 4 December 1994·Sue Lawley

• Sir Howard Hodgkin

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  Sir Howard Hodgkin

  Howard Hodgkin on painting on the back of an RAF mess blackboard

  Castaway · 27 November 1994·Sue Lawley

• Glenys Kinnock

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  Glenys Kinnock

  Glenys Kinnock on her father's Suez Canal lesson in 1956

  Castaway · 20 November 1994·Sue Lawley

• Berthold Goldschmidt

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  Berthold Goldschmidt

  Berthold Goldschmidt on being summoned by the Gestapo

  Castaway · 13 November 1994·Sue Lawley

• Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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  Archbishop Desmond Tutu

  Desmond Tutu on black children scavenging sandwiches from white school waste bins

  Castaway · 6 November 1994·Sue Lawley

• Kathleen Hale

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  Kathleen Hale

  Kathleen Hale on having her sketchbook taken away as a punishment

  Castaway · 30 October 1994·Sue Lawley

• Lynda La Plante

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  Lynda La Plante

  Lynda La Plante on the moment she knew she'd never act again

  Castaway · 23 October 1994·Sue Lawley

• Sir George Christie

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  Sir George Christie

  George Christie on his son asking to see a hostess's opera house

  Castaway · 16 October 1994·Sue Lawley

• Jeanette Winterson

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  Jeanette Winterson

  Jeanette Winterson on deciding never to read reviews

  Castaway · 9 October 1994·Sue Lawley

• Professor James Fenton

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  Professor James Fenton

  James Fenton on the Les Misérables song that made him a millionaire

  Castaway · 2 October 1994·Sue Lawley

• Mary Stott

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  Mary Stott

  Mary Stott on dressing up in a scarlet jumper to vote for the first time

  Castaway · 25 September 1994·Sue Lawley

• John Tavener

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  John Tavener

  John Tavener on flinging a Beethoven sonata across the room

  Castaway · 18 September 1994·Sue Lawley

• Joanna Trollope

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  Joanna Trollope

  Joanna Trollope on coming out of the historical cupboard

  Castaway · 11 September 1994·Sue Lawley

• Rabbi Hugo Gryn

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  Rabbi Hugo Gryn

  Hugo Gryn on the night terrorists butchered his grandfather's livestock

  Castaway · 10 July 1994·Sue Lawley

• Derek Jameson

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  Derek Jameson

  How Derek Jameson's invented war-hero father story collapsed when he did the maths

  Castaway · 3 July 1994·Sue Lawley

• John Drummond

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  John Drummond

  John Drummond on the ten years of misery under Hugh Weldon

  Castaway · 26 June 1994·Sue Lawley

• Brian Sewell

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  Brian Sewell

  Brian Sewell on Paul Nash teaching him to see a whole landscape in a rock

  Castaway · 19 June 1994·Sue Lawley

• Zoe Wanamaker

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  Zoe Wanamaker

  How Zoe Wanamaker's father stopped her from changing her name

  Castaway · 12 June 1994·Sue Lawley

• Milton Schulman

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  Milton Schulman

  Castaway · 5 June 1994·Sue Lawley

• Milton Shulman

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  Milton Shulman

  Milton Shulman on how hay fever stopped him from becoming a crooner

  Castaway · 5 June 1994·Sue Lawley

• Peter Scudamore

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  Peter Scudamore

  Peter Scudamore on throwing stones at posts as a child to predict his racing success

  Castaway · 29 May 1994·Sue Lawley

• Britt Ekland

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  Britt Ekland

  Britt Ekland on marrying Peter Sellers after just ten days

  Castaway · 22 May 1994·Sue Lawley

• Kate Adie

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  Kate Adie

  Kate Adie on the Empire disappearing before she could marry a missionary

  Castaway · 15 May 1994·Sue Lawley

• Sir John Wilson

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  Sir John Wilson

  John Wilson on a tree as a white column of sound

  Castaway · 8 May 1994·Sue Lawley

• Garrison Keillor

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  Garrison Keillor

  Garrison Keillor on riding his bike to the Mississippi River and no one noticing he'd left

  Castaway · 1 May 1994·Sue Lawley

• Trevor McDonald

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  Trevor McDonald

  Trevor McDonald on crying to Beethoven after witnessing apartheid

  Castaway · 24 April 1994·Sue Lawley

• Alan Hacker

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  Alan Hacker

  How playing the Mozart clarinet quintet helped Alan Hacker recover from paralysis

  Castaway · 17 April 1994·Sue Lawley

• Roger McGough

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  Roger McGough

  Roger McGough on having his mind opened by French poets at Hull University

  Castaway · 10 April 1994·Sue Lawley

• Sir Ranulph Fiennes

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  Sir Ranulph Fiennes

  Ranulph Fiennes on considering jumping off Windsor Bridge during his time at Eton

  Castaway · 3 April 1994·Sue Lawley

• Conrad Black

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  Conrad Black

  Conrad Black on taking visitors to see his press hall's million-copy print run

  Castaway · 27 March 1994·Sue Lawley

• Christina Dodwell

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  Christina Dodwell

  Christina Dodwell on her raft flipping upside down in Papua New Guinea

  Castaway · 6 March 1994·Sue Lawley

• Frances Partridge

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  Frances Partridge

  Frances Partridge on losing her faith in a seaside boarding house aged 11

  Castaway · 27 February 1994·Sue Lawley

• Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP

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  Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP

  How rude remarks made Kenneth Clarke wear suede shoes defiantly

  Castaway · 20 February 1994·Sue Lawley

• Rosemary Verey

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  Rosemary Verey

  Rosemary Verey on hoping her late husband could still enjoy her garden

  Castaway · 13 February 1994·Sue Lawley

• Douglas Adams

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  Douglas Adams

  How lying drunk in an Innsbruck field gave Douglas Adams his Hitchhiker's idea

  Castaway · 6 February 1994·Sue Lawley

• Dame Cicely Saunders

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  Dame Cicely Saunders

  Cicely Saunders on the patient who thanked her for telling him he was dying

  Castaway · 30 January 1994·Sue Lawley

• Willy Russell

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  Willy Russell

  Willy Russell on the woman who told him the same story every week for two years

  Castaway · 23 January 1994·Sue Lawley

• Sir Harrison Birtwistle

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  Sir Harrison Birtwistle

  How hearing the Turangalîla symphony in a lift convinced Harrison Birtwistle to become a composer

  Castaway · 16 January 1994·Sue Lawley