423 episodes

• Yvonne Brewster

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  Yvonne Brewster

  Yvonne Brewster on being put out in the garden after showing her native costumes

  Castaway · 27 March 2005·Sue Lawley

• Raymond Briggs

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  Raymond Briggs

  How a shaken duster brought Raymond Briggs's parents together

  Castaway · 20 March 2005·Sue Lawley

• Stephen Poliakoff

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  Stephen Poliakoff

  Stephen Poliakoff on his father lifting the dining table over peas

  Castaway · 13 March 2005·Sue Lawley

• Alison Richard

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  Alison Richard

  Alison Richard on thinking she was at Cambridge by mistake

  Castaway · 6 March 2005·Sue Lawley

• Geoffrey Palmer

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  Geoffrey Palmer

  Geoffrey Palmer on cleaning out the grate when Laurence Olivier rang

  Castaway · 27 February 2005·Sue Lawley

• David Starkey

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  David Starkey

  David Starkey on his mother's fear that he was born disabled

  Castaway · 6 February 2005·Sue Lawley

• Peter Maxwell Davies

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  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Peter Maxwell Davies on hearing the music he was going to write in a Lake District mist

  Castaway · 30 January 2005·Sue Lawley

• Dr Jonathan Miller

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  Dr Jonathan Miller

  Jonathan Miller on his father asking him at 40 what he wants to be

  Castaway · 23 January 2005·Sue Lawley

• Sam Taylor-Wood

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  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Sam Taylor-Wood on persuading actors to cry without warning

  Castaway · 16 January 2005·Sue Lawley

• Andy McNab

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  Andy McNab

  Andy McNab on sitting under a shower for an hour

  Castaway · 9 January 2005·Sue Lawley

• Carlos Acosta

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  Carlos Acosta

  Carlos Acosta on winning the Prix de Lausanne at sixteen

  Castaway · 2 January 2005·Sue Lawley

• Kim Cattrall

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  Kim Cattrall

  Kim Cattrall on her childhood ambition to sing Jingle Bells in a Christmas pageant

  Castaway · 26 December 2004·Sue Lawley

• Engelbert Humperdinck

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  Engelbert Humperdinck

  Engelbert Humperdinck on starting the sideburns against all advice

  Castaway · 19 December 2004·Sue Lawley

• John Fortune

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  John Fortune

  John Fortune on the English master who changed his life by reading T.S. Eliot

  Castaway · 12 December 2004·Sue Lawley

• Sir Bobby Robson

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  Sir Bobby Robson

  Bobby Robson on his wife making him go to the doctor that saved his life

  Castaway · 5 December 2004·Sue Lawley

• Tracey Emin

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  Tracey Emin

  Tracey Emin on the dinner ladies who made her a cup of tea at art college

  Castaway · 28 November 2004·Sue Lawley

• Clive Stafford Smith

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  Clive Stafford Smith

  Clive Stafford Smith on seeing a picture of Joan of Arc being burnt at the stake

  Castaway · 21 November 2004·Sue Lawley

• Matthew Bourne

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  Matthew Bourne

  How copying the moves helped Matthew Bourne get into dance school

  Castaway · 19 November 2004·Sue Lawley

• Ann Leslie

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  Ann Leslie

  Ann Leslie on deciding not to die in hospital for her family's sake

  Castaway · 7 November 2004·Sue Lawley

• Matthew Pinsent

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  Matthew Pinsent

  Matthew Pinsent on the submarine-like pressure that brought him to tears on the podium

  Castaway · 31 October 2004·Sue Lawley

• Jack Mapanje

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  Jack Mapanje

  Jack Mapanje on a phone call in Gaelic that may have saved his life

  Castaway · 24 October 2004·Sue Lawley

• Rt Hon Sir Menzies Campbell MP

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  Rt Hon Sir Menzies Campbell MP

  Menzies Campbell on the moment he was told he had a malignant tumour

  Castaway · 17 October 2004·Sue Lawley

• Anne Scott James

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  Anne Scott James

  Anne Scott James on looking after her epileptic brother John

  Castaway · 10 October 2004·Sue Lawley

• Desmond Morris

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  Desmond Morris

  Desmond Morris on his childhood private island during World War Two

  Castaway · 3 October 2004·Sue Lawley

• Virginia McKenna

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  Virginia McKenna

  Virginia McKenna on her father keeping a snake called George and two bush babies

  Castaway · 26 September 2004·Sue Lawley

• Joe Simpson

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  Joe Simpson

  Joe Simpson on why he chose to descend into the crevasse

  Castaway · 19 September 2004·Sue Lawley

• Hugh Masekela

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  Hugh Masekela

  Hugh Masekela on being unable to bury his mother while in exile

  Castaway · 11 July 2004·Sue Lawley

• Rt Hon Michael Howard MP

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  Rt Hon Michael Howard MP

  Michael Howard on his aunt surviving three trips to the Auschwitz gas chamber

  Castaway · 4 July 2004·Sue Lawley

• Tim Rice

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  Tim Rice

  How a rejected idea led Tim Rice to meet Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Castaway · 27 June 2004·Sue Lawley

• Diana Athill

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  Diana Athill

  Diana Athill on discovering the facts of life at age 11 in a book by Mary Stopes

  Castaway · 20 June 2004·Sue Lawley

• Karan Bilimoria

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  Karan Bilimoria

  Karan Bilimoria on being called an 'import-export waller' by his family

  Castaway · 13 June 2004·Sue Lawley

• Geraldine James

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  Geraldine James

  How the sound of a brown paper bag helped Geraldine James land a role

  Castaway · 30 May 2004·Sue Lawley

• Sir Ken Adam

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  Sir Ken Adam

  Ken Adam on a boy shouting 'Jubo' and learning he was Jewish

  Castaway · 23 May 2004·Sue Lawley

• Pen Hadow

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  Pen Hadow

  Pen Hadow on hitting a polar bear on the head with a saucepan

  Castaway · 16 May 2004·Sue Lawley

• U A Fanthorpe

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  U A Fanthorpe

  U A Fanthorpe on re-baptising herself from Ursula

  Castaway · 9 May 2004·Sue Lawley

• Graham Norton

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  Graham Norton

  Graham Norton on Joan Collins’s phone call with a glove fetishist

  Castaway · 2 May 2004·Sue Lawley

• Antonio Pappano

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  Antonio Pappano

  Antonio Pappano on the baton that flew out of his hand during Pagliacci

  Castaway · 25 April 2004·Sue Lawley

• Bernard Cornwell

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  Bernard Cornwell

  Bernard Cornwell on promising to write a book to win his wife

  Castaway · 18 April 2004·Sue Lawley

• Michael Morpurgo

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  Michael Morpurgo

  Michael Morpurgo on first seeing his father as a convict in Great Expectations

  Castaway · 11 April 2004·Sue Lawley

• Angela Gheorghiu

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  Angela Gheorghiu

  Angela Gheorghiu on witnessing the fall of Ceaușescu

  Castaway · 4 April 2004·Sue Lawley

• Jack Vettriano

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  Jack Vettriano

  Jack Vettriano on why you should never use black for a stormy sky

  Castaway · 28 March 2004·Sue Lawley

• Ralph Kohn

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  Ralph Kohn

  Ralph Kohn on fleeing Amsterdam the day it was occupied by Germany

  Castaway · 21 March 2004·Sue Lawley

• Bill Nighy

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  Bill Nighy

  How stealing Shakespeare from a library helped Bill Nighy into drama school

  Castaway · 14 March 2004·Sue Lawley

• Sir Gulam Noon

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  Sir Gulam Noon

  Gulam Noon on promising his mother he'd take care of everything after his father died

  Castaway · 7 March 2004·Sue Lawley

• Judith Kerr

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  Judith Kerr

  Judith Kerr on killing off Mog the Cat as she turned 80

  Castaway · 29 February 2004·Sue Lawley

• John Cale

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  John Cale

  John Cale on his grandmother blaming him for his mother's illness

  Castaway · 22 February 2004·Sue Lawley

• Sacha Distel

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  Sacha Distel

  Sacha Distel on playing the piano as police took his mother

  Castaway · 15 February 2004·Sue Lawley

• Sister Frances Dominica

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  Sister Frances Dominica

  Frances Dominica on the split-second she knew she had to become a nun

  Castaway · 8 February 2004·Sue Lawley

• David Sainsbury

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  David Sainsbury

  Castaway · 1 February 2004·Sue Lawley

• Rt Hon Lord Sainsbury

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  Rt Hon Lord Sainsbury

  David Sainsbury on being asked to choose a Henry Moore drawing as a birthday present as a small boy

  Castaway · 1 February 2004·Sue Lawley