423 episodes

• Clive James

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  Clive James

  How living in a basement stopped Clive James from jumping

  Castaway · 11 June 2000·Sue Lawley

• Professor Géza Vermes

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  Professor Géza Vermes

  Géza Vermes on becoming a priest because he couldn't go to university

  Castaway · 4 June 2000·Sue Lawley

• John Bird

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  John Bird

  John Bird on performing when no one else would for the money

  Castaway · 28 May 2000·Sue Lawley

• Dame Norma Major

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  Dame Norma Major

  Norma Major on crying during her first six months in Downing Street

  Castaway · 21 May 2000·Sue Lawley

• Kathleen Turner

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  Kathleen Turner

  Kathleen Turner on weeping in her dressing room after a nude scene

  Castaway · 14 May 2000·Sue Lawley

• Sir John Mills

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  Sir John Mills

  John Mills on knowing at age five that he had to be an actor

  Castaway · 7 May 2000·Sue Lawley

• Sir Peter Bonfield

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  Sir Peter Bonfield

  Peter Bonfield on his phobia of being late after discipline from nuns

  Castaway · 30 April 2000·Sue Lawley

• Leonard Slatkin

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  Leonard Slatkin

  Leonard Slatkin on becoming an English major after his father's death

  Castaway · 23 April 2000·Sue Lawley

• Sir Anthony Caro

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  Sir Anthony Caro

  Anthony Caro on being stuck in a garage

  Castaway · 16 April 2000·Sue Lawley

• Claire Tomalin

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  Claire Tomalin

  Claire Tomalin on taking back her husband after his outrageous behaviour

  Castaway · 9 April 2000·Sue Lawley

• Harold Evans

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  Harold Evans

  How Rupert Murdoch asked Harold Evans to resign while he prepared for his father's funeral

  Castaway · 2 April 2000·Sue Lawley

• Adrian Noble

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  Adrian Noble

  Adrian Noble on the funeral hymns that were the sound of his childhood

  Castaway · 26 March 2000·Sue Lawley

• Al Alvarez

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  Al Alvarez

  Al Alvarez on ducking out when Sylvia Plath begged him to stay

  Castaway · 19 March 2000·Sue Lawley

• Colin Montgomerie

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  Colin Montgomerie

  Colin Montgomerie on turning heckling into determination at the Ryder Cup

  Castaway · 12 March 2000·Sue Lawley

• Robert McCrum

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  Robert McCrum

  Robert McCrum on crawling downstairs after his stroke

  Castaway · 5 March 2000·Sue Lawley

• Sheila Hancock

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  Sheila Hancock

  How hypnotism stopped Sheila Hancock vomiting before a National Theatre performance

  Castaway · 27 February 2000·Sue Lawley

• Michael Holroyd

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  Michael Holroyd

  Michael Holroyd on his father threatening to take him to court over his novel

  Castaway · 20 February 2000·Sue Lawley

• Professor Stuart Hall

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  Professor Stuart Hall

  Stuart Hall on watching his father being patronised in colonial Jamaica

  Castaway · 13 February 2000·Sue Lawley

• Simon Callow

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  Simon Callow

  Simon Callow on his character Gareth dying of Scottish dancing

  Castaway · 6 February 2000·Sue Lawley

• Peter Melchett

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  Peter Melchett

  Peter Melchett on feeling nervous during direct action against GM crops

  Castaway · 30 January 2000·Sue Lawley

• Neil Jordan

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  Neil Jordan

  Neil Jordan on hearing voices and seeing visions as a child

  Castaway · 23 January 2000·Sue Lawley

• Ian McEwan

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  Ian McEwan

  Ian McEwan on waving goodbye to his parents from a plane in Libya

  Castaway · 16 January 2000·Sue Lawley

• Dr Jane Goodall

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  Dr Jane Goodall

  Jane Goodall on the moment a chimpanzee squeezed her hand

  Castaway · 9 January 2000·Sue Lawley