423 episodes

• Christopher Ondaatje

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  Christopher Ondaatje

  How chasing leopards in Tanzania made Christopher Ondaatje quit business

  Castaway · 17 November 2002·Sue Lawley

• Marguerite Wolff

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  Marguerite Wolff

  Marguerite Wolff on seeing girls swinging tennis rackets and feeling wistful

  Castaway · 15 November 2002·Sue Lawley

• Rt Hon Robin Cook MP

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  Rt Hon Robin Cook MP

  Robin Cook on abandoning academia after a colleague's thesis on Victorian sanitation

  Castaway · 3 November 2002·Sue Lawley

• P D James

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  P D James

  P D James on narrating her own life from childhood

  Castaway · 27 October 2002·Sue Lawley

• Carl Djerassi

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  Carl Djerassi

  Carl Djerassi on finding his daughter's body in the woods

  Castaway · 20 October 2002·Sue Lawley

• Paul Gambaccini

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  Paul Gambaccini

  Paul Gambaccini on realizing he was a 'freak' for his music knowledge

  Castaway · 13 October 2002·Sue Lawley

• Philip Pullman

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  Philip Pullman

  Philip Pullman on his Oxford English degree being a useless waste of time

  Castaway · 6 October 2002·Sue Lawley

• Dame Alicia Markova

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  Dame Alicia Markova

  How ballet saved Alicia Markova from a wheelchair

  Castaway · 29 September 2002·Sue Lawley

• Timothy Spall

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  Timothy Spall

  Timothy Spall on his drama teacher's extraordinary praise after playing the lion in The Wizard of Oz

  Castaway · 22 September 2002·Sue Lawley

• Brian May

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  Brian May

  How a Concorde flight to Madison Square Garden won over Brian May's father

  Castaway · 15 September 2002·Sue Lawley

• Alan Titchmarsh

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  Alan Titchmarsh

  How greenfly in Margate led Alan Titchmarsh to television

  Castaway · 7 July 2002·Sue Lawley

• Minette Walters

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  Minette Walters

  Minette Walters on the neighbour who told her to do something with her day

  Castaway · 30 June 2002·Sue Lawley

• Lady Longford

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  Lady Longford

  Castaway · 23 June 2002·Sue Lawley

• Countess Elizabeth Longford

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  Countess Elizabeth Longford

  Elizabeth Longford on her mother fighting a swan at Regent's Park Lake

  Castaway · 23 June 2002·Sue Lawley

• Jan Morris

  10°41′S 148°10′W

  Jan Morris

  Jan Morris on the Arabic music drifting through her Casablanca clinic window

  Castaway · 16 June 2002·Sue Lawley

• Leonard Rosoman

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  Leonard Rosoman

  How a fire chief’s order saved Leonard Rosoman from a falling wall

  Castaway · 9 June 2002·Sue Lawley

• Sue Johnston

  12°00′S 131°54′W

  Sue Johnston

  Sue Johnston on reliving her own attack while filming a rape storyline

  Castaway · 26 May 2002·Sue Lawley

• Suggs

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  Suggs

  Suggs on sticking a pin in a jazz encyclopedia to find his stage name

  Castaway · 19 May 2002·Sue Lawley

• Sir Aaron Klug

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  Sir Aaron Klug

  Aaron Klug on being inspired by Microbe Hunters to study medicine

  Castaway · 12 May 2002·Sue Lawley

• Jude Kelly

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  Jude Kelly

  Jude Kelly on making up plays in the back garden as a child

  Castaway · 5 May 2002·Sue Lawley

• Betty Jackson

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  Betty Jackson

  Betty Jackson on driving into a tree after her car's steering failed

  Castaway · 28 April 2002·Sue Lawley

• Wayne Marshall

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  Wayne Marshall

  Wayne Marshall on a Dublin concert where his organ's memory was wiped

  Castaway · 21 April 2002·Sue Lawley

• Sir Christopher Bland

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  Sir Christopher Bland

  Christopher Bland on saying bollocks in the council chamber

  Castaway · 14 April 2002·Sue Lawley

• Fiona Reynolds

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  Fiona Reynolds

  How Fiona Reynolds made the brave decision to close National Trust sites during foot and mouth

  Castaway · 7 April 2002·Sue Lawley

• Gordon Ramsay

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  Gordon Ramsay

  Gordon Ramsay on never eating in his own restaurant

  Castaway · 31 March 2002·Sue Lawley

• Dorothy Rowe

  10°16′S 147°40′W

  Dorothy Rowe

  Dorothy Rowe on her mother threatening to kill her and herself

  Castaway · 24 March 2002·Sue Lawley

• Fay Godwin

  21°36′S 156°48′W

  Fay Godwin

  Fay Godwin on her mother's death on her 17th birthday

  Castaway · 17 March 2002·Sue Lawley

• Dame Beryl Grey

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  Dame Beryl Grey

  Beryl Grey on performing her first full-length ballet aged fifteen

  Castaway · 10 March 2002·Sue Lawley

• Lord May

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  Lord May

  Robert May on not seeing his father since the age of 17

  Castaway · 3 March 2002·Sue Lawley

• Sue MacGregor

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  Sue MacGregor

  Sue MacGregor on crying privately over Brian Redhead's behaviour

  Castaway · 24 February 2002·Sue Lawley

• Kazuo Ishiguro

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  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Kazuo Ishiguro on greeting his classmates with 'Howdy?'

  Castaway · 17 February 2002·Sue Lawley

• Sir Paul Nurse

  21°59′S 179°17′W

  Sir Paul Nurse

  Paul Nurse on failing O-level French six times

  Castaway · 10 February 2002·Sue Lawley

• David Linley

  10°39′S 171°09′W

  David Linley

  David Linley on running his hands along the underside of furniture to check the finish

  Castaway · 3 February 2002·Sue Lawley

• Phyllis Sellick

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  Phyllis Sellick

  Phyllis Sellick on the secret benefactor who got them home from Russia

  Castaway · 27 January 2002·Sue Lawley

• Bob Worcester

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  Bob Worcester

  Bob Worcester on sacking Robert Maxwell for trying to bury poll results

  Castaway · 20 January 2002·Sue Lawley

• Susana Walton

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  Susana Walton

  How a press conference proposal left Susana Walton foreseeing 'three weeks of disaster'

  Castaway · 13 January 2002·Sue Lawley

• Sir Peter Morris

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  Sir Peter Morris

  Peter Morris on his first kidney transplant operation on 29 January 1975

  Castaway · 6 January 2002·Sue Lawley

• Ewan McGregor

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  Ewan McGregor

  Ewan McGregor on running away from home with sandwiches, milk, and the dog

  Castaway · 30 December 2001·Sue Lawley

• Jamie Oliver

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  Jamie Oliver

  Jamie Oliver on discovering that bread dough is alive at age ten

  Castaway · 23 December 2001·Sue Lawley

• Anne Fine

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  Anne Fine

  How the tabloid response to child murders inspired Anne Fine's The Tulip Touch

  Castaway · 16 December 2001·Sue Lawley

• Cameron Mackintosh

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  Cameron Mackintosh

  Cameron Mackintosh on knowing at ten he would produce musicals

  Castaway · 9 December 2001·Sue Lawley

• Rt Hon William Hague MP

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  Rt Hon William Hague MP

  William Hague on his sister writing 'Dear Tory Pig' letters

  Castaway · 2 December 2001·Sue Lawley

• Ken Follett

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  Ken Follett

  Ken Follett on reading his first James Bond story at age 12

  Castaway · 25 November 2001·Sue Lawley

• Billy Connolly

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  Billy Connolly

  Billy Connolly on being humiliated daily by his Auntie Mona

  Castaway · 18 November 2001·Sue Lawley

• Simon Schama

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  Simon Schama

  Simon Schama on discovering his ancestors were Jewish lumberjacks

  Castaway · 2 September 2001·Sue Lawley

• Lord Roll

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  Lord Roll

  Eric Roll on the only time he saw his father cry

  Castaway · 26 August 2001·Sue Lawley

• Bruce Fogle

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  Bruce Fogle

  Bruce Fogle on a punk client crying over her rat's mammary tumor

  Castaway · 19 August 2001·Sue Lawley

• Joss Ackland

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  Joss Ackland

  Joss Ackland on never being cast in a school play

  Castaway · 12 August 2001·Sue Lawley

• Lord Deedes

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  Lord Deedes

  How a gun deal landed Bill Deedes his first journalism job

  Castaway · 5 August 2001·Sue Lawley

• Claudia Roden

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  Claudia Roden

  Claudia Roden on the smell of cumin and coriander that still elates her

  Castaway · 29 July 2001·Sue Lawley