440 episodes

• Dr Bill Frankland

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  Dr Bill Frankland

  How a coin toss saved Bill Frankland's life

  Castaway · 9 August 2015·Kirsty Young

• Ruth Rogers

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  Ruth Rogers

  How a 685-entry competition brought Ruth Rogers to Paris

  Castaway · 2 August 2015·Kirsty Young

• Professor Monica Grady

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  Professor Monica Grady

  Monica Grady on punching the air as the comet probe landed

  Castaway · 26 July 2015·Kirsty Young

• Noel Gallagher

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  Noel Gallagher

  Noel Gallagher on not remembering walking on stage at Knebworth

  Castaway · 19 July 2015·Kirsty Young

• Imtiaz Dharker

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  Imtiaz Dharker

  How a Tannoy announcement led Imtiaz Dharker to her first marriage

  Castaway · 12 July 2015·Kirsty Young

• Freddie Flintoff

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  Freddie Flintoff

  Freddie Flintoff on his 45-minute chess bluff against his granddad

  Castaway · 5 July 2015·Kirsty Young

• Harry Rabinowitz

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  Harry Rabinowitz

  How Harry Rabinowitz signed the wrong contract and missed out on royalties

  Castaway · 28 June 2015·Kirsty Young

• Stephen Fry

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  Stephen Fry

  Stephen Fry on his psychiatrist's frustration that his parents weren't in the diplomatic corps

  Castaway · 21 June 2015·Kirsty Young

• Rebecca Adlington

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  Rebecca Adlington

  Rebecca Adlington on the cameraman who found her parents in 17,000 people

  Castaway · 14 June 2015·Kirsty Young

• Lisa Jardine

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  Lisa Jardine

  How asking for a glass of water helped Lisa Jardine be heard in a room

  Castaway · 7 June 2015·Kirsty Young

• Pamela Rose

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  Pamela Rose

  Pamela Rose on telling herself the stage could wait and the war can't

  Castaway · 31 May 2015·Kirsty Young

• Jimmy Wales

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  Jimmy Wales

  Jimmy Wales on losing a full scholarship after driving around listening to Motley Crue

  Castaway · 24 May 2015·Kirsty Young

• Helen Browning

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  Helen Browning

  Helen Browning on walking out of her A-levels to be with her dying brother

  Castaway · 17 May 2015·Kirsty Young

• Sir Bradley Wiggins

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  Sir Bradley Wiggins

  Bradley Wiggins on being mobbed while taking his daughter to buy a mini iPod

  Castaway · 10 May 2015·Kirsty Young

• Paul Hollywood

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  Paul Hollywood

  How a £500 bribe got Paul Hollywood into baking

  Castaway · 29 March 2015·Kirsty Young

• Pat Albeck

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  Pat Albeck

  Pat Albeck on watching people ignore her dress in Fenwick's window

  Castaway · 22 March 2015·Kirsty Young

• Robin Millar

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  Robin Millar

  How Robin Millar missed his bus stop after being told he would go blind

  Castaway · 15 March 2015·Kirsty Young

• Bryan Stevenson

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  Bryan Stevenson

  Bryan Stevenson on the death row prisoner who sang a hymn that changed his life

  Castaway · 8 March 2015·Kirsty Young

• Julia Samuel

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  Julia Samuel

  Julia Samuel on not knowing babies could die until she chaired Birthright

  Castaway · 1 March 2015·Kirsty Young

• Jonas Kaufmann

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  Jonas Kaufmann

  Jonas Kaufmann on conquering his stage fright to become a stage monster

  Castaway · 22 February 2015·Kirsty Young

• Mark Rylance

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  Mark Rylance

  Mark Rylance on a Broadmoor patient telling him 'I believe you'

  Castaway · 15 February 2015·Kirsty Young

• Dan Pearson

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  Dan Pearson

  How a walk in the Picos Mountains gave Dan Pearson a gardening epiphany

  Castaway · 8 February 2015·Kirsty Young

• Professor Angie Hobbs

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  Professor Angie Hobbs

  Angie Hobbs on feeling the exact moment her sister died

  Castaway · 1 February 2015·Kirsty Young

• Professor Peter Piot

  10°11′S 158°43′W

  Professor Peter Piot

  Peter Piot on explaining to nuns that their needles spread disease

  Castaway · 25 January 2015·Kirsty Young

• Julia Cleverdon

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  Julia Cleverdon

  Julia Cleverdon on her father locking Dylan Thomas in a library to finish Under Milk Wood

  Castaway · 18 January 2015·Kirsty Young

• Jo Malone

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  Jo Malone

  Jo Malone on being told to make lemonade from lemons

  Castaway · 11 January 2015·Kirsty Young

• Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell

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  Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell

  Nancy Rothwell on realising she was wearing two left shoes

  Castaway · 4 January 2015·Kirsty Young

• Ray Winstone

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  Ray Winstone

  Ray Winstone on weeing on Ronnie Kray's raincoat

  Castaway · 28 December 2014·Kirsty Young

• The Most Reverend Justin Welby

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  The Most Reverend Justin Welby

  Justin Welby on consecrating a grave for murdered clergy in South Sudan

  Castaway · 21 December 2014·Kirsty Young

• Sarah Millican

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  Sarah Millican

  Sarah Millican on waking up to a blood-soaked bed because her shoes were too tight

  Castaway · 14 December 2014·Kirsty Young

• Julie Bentley

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  Julie Bentley

  Julie Bentley on being sick on her first day as a police photographer

  Castaway · 7 December 2014·Kirsty Young

• Damian Lewis

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  Damian Lewis

  Damian Lewis on asking President Obama about going into Iran

  Castaway · 30 November 2014·Kirsty Young

• Rt Hon Theresa May

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  Rt Hon Theresa May

  Theresa May on a family coming to complain to her vicar father

  Castaway · 23 November 2014·Kirsty Young

• John Agard

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  John Agard

  John Agard on hearing 'butter to my heart' on Strictly Come Dancing

  Castaway · 16 November 2014·Kirsty Young

• Captain Eric Brown (Winkle)

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  Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown

  Eric Brown on interrogating Hermann Goering

  Castaway · 14 November 2014·Kirsty Young

• Wendy Dagworthy

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  Wendy Dagworthy

  Wendy Dagworthy on seeing people walking on the street in her clothes

  Castaway · 2 November 2014·Kirsty Young

• Roger Graef

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  Roger Graef

  Roger Graef on deciding to become a director after noticing audience attention at Harvard

  Castaway · 26 October 2014·Kirsty Young

• Debbie Wiseman

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  Debbie Wiseman

  Debbie Wiseman on composing 70 minutes of orchestral music in three and a half weeks

  Castaway · 19 October 2014·Kirsty Young

• Sir Roy Strong

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  Sir Roy Strong

  Roy Strong on feeling he was where he should have been from the start

  Castaway · 12 October 2014·Kirsty Young

• Sally Wainwright

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  Sally Wainwright

  Sally Wainwright on seeing Barry Keefe's Bastard Angel aged 16

  Castaway · 5 October 2014·Kirsty Young

• Marin Alsop

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  Marin Alsop

  Marin Alsop on deciding to become a conductor aged nine after seeing Leonard Bernstein conduct

  Castaway · 28 September 2014·Kirsty Young

• Steve McQueen

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  Steve McQueen

  How art saved Steve McQueen from a life of manual labour

  Castaway · 21 September 2014·Kirsty Young

• Anna Scher

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  Anna Scher

  Castaway · 7 September 2014·Kirsty Young

• Malcolm Gladwell

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  Malcolm Gladwell

  Malcolm Gladwell on the chance roommate who unlocked American journalism for him

  Castaway · 10 August 2014·Kirsty Young

• Guy Garvey

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  Guy Garvey

  Guy Garvey on smuggling a case of Guinness into the Olympic closing ceremony

  Castaway · 3 August 2014·Kirsty Young

• Dame Wendy Hall

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  Dame Wendy Hall

  Wendy Hall on being told she didn't get a job because she was a woman

  Castaway · 27 July 2014·Kirsty Young

• Doug Allan

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  Doug Allan

  Doug Allan on being mistaken for a seal by a walrus

  Castaway · 20 July 2014·Kirsty Young

• Anne Reid

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  Anne Reid

  Anne Reid on crying in the hedge while caring for her family

  Castaway · 13 July 2014·Kirsty Young

• Sir Michael Marmot

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  Sir Michael Marmot

  How a bottle of white mixture led Michael Marmot to question medicine

  Castaway · 6 July 2014·Kirsty Young

• Lily Allen

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  Lily Allen

  Lily Allen on her singing teacher hearing her sing an Oasis song

  Castaway · 29 June 2014·Kirsty Young