440 episodes

• Sir David Attenborough

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  Sir David Attenborough

  David Attenborough on his father running down the allotment with the news he won a scholarship

  Castaway · 29 January 2012·Kirsty Young

• Vikram Seth

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  Vikram Seth

  Vikram Seth on abandoning his dissertation after reading Pushkin's Eugene Onegin

  Castaway · 22 January 2012·Kirsty Young

• Paul Johnson

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  Paul Johnson

  Paul Johnson on finding he didn’t enjoy power as editor of the New Statesman

  Castaway · 15 January 2012·Kirsty Young

• Dame Monica Mason

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  Dame Monica Mason

  Monica Mason on her father’s last wave from a hospital balcony

  Castaway · 8 January 2012·Kirsty Young

• Sir Terry Wogan

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  Sir Terry Wogan

  Terry Wogan on his nerve-wracking first broadcast reading the Cattle Market Report

  Castaway · 1 January 2012·Kirsty Young

• Professor Brian Cox

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  Professor Brian Cox

  Brian Cox on wanting his grandfather to see him at Buckingham Palace

  Castaway · 30 December 2011·Kirsty Young

• Baron Fellowes of West Stafford

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  Baron Fellowes of West Stafford

  Castaway · 18 December 2011·Kirsty Young

• Julian Fellowes

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  Julian Fellowes

  How a surprise phone call led Julian Fellowes to write for Robert Altman

  Castaway · 18 December 2011·Kirsty Young

• Eve Pollard

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  Eve Pollard

  Eve Pollard on playing badminton in the office at four o'clock

  Castaway · 11 December 2011·Kirsty Young

• Sir Martin Sorrell

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  Sir Martin Sorrell

  Martin Sorrell on the near-collapse of WPP in 1991

  Castaway · 4 December 2011·Kirsty Young

• Bear Grylls

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  Bear Grylls

  Bear Grylls on crying uncontrollably at the summit of Everest

  Castaway · 27 November 2011·Kirsty Young

• Robert Hardy

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  Robert Hardy

  Robert Hardy on how dissatisfaction with himself led him to acting

  Castaway · 20 November 2011·Kirsty Young

• Anna Scher

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  Anna Scher

  Anna Scher on coming home to find her mother had left

  Castaway · 18 November 2011·Kirsty Young

• Francesca Simon

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  Francesca Simon

  Francesca Simon on telling her mother she'd never get married

  Castaway · 6 November 2011·Kirsty Young

• Lord Victor Adebowale

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  Lord Victor Adebowale

  Victor Adebowale on the casual cruelty he observed as a street sweeper

  Castaway · 30 October 2011·Kirsty Young

• Mark Gatiss

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  Mark Gatiss

  Mark Gatiss on his childhood enthusiasm for wartime sing-alongs

  Castaway · 23 October 2011·Kirsty Young

• Michael Johnson

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  Michael Johnson

  Michael Johnson on retiring after 1996 while still world number one

  Castaway · 16 October 2011·Kirsty Young

• Vidal Sassoon

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  Vidal Sassoon

  How Vidal Sassoon fought fascists on the streets of London at 17

  Castaway · 9 October 2011·Kirsty Young

• Anne Wood

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  Anne Wood

  Anne Wood on using a DV camera to observe children watching TV

  Castaway · 2 October 2011·Kirsty Young

• Arthur Edwards

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  Arthur Edwards

  Arthur Edwards on photographing Lady Diana in a see-through skirt

  Castaway · 25 September 2011·Kirsty Young

• Martin Clunes

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  Martin Clunes

  Martin Clunes on learning his father had left his family before he died

  Castaway · 18 September 2011·Kirsty Young

• Danny Baker

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  Danny Baker

  Danny Baker on leaving school at 14 to work in a record shop

  Castaway · 31 July 2011·Kirsty Young

• Heather Rabbatts

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  Heather Rabbatts

  Heather Rabbatts on being called monkey and half breed at school

  Castaway · 24 July 2011·Kirsty Young

• Michael McIntyre

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  Michael McIntyre

  Michael McIntyre on waiting two years outside his future wife's door

  Castaway · 17 July 2011·Kirsty Young

• John Graham

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  John Graham

  John Graham on bailing out of his burning plane

  Castaway · 10 July 2011·Kirsty Young

• Tony Robinson

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  Tony Robinson

  How Tony Robinson's Blackadder role came from an act of desperation

  Castaway · 3 July 2011·Kirsty Young

• Dame Harriet Walter

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  Dame Harriet Walter

  Harriet Walter on the summer holiday that threw her into chaos

  Castaway · 26 June 2011·Kirsty Young

• Len Goodman

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  Len Goodman

  Len Goodman on his childhood Saturday night sing-songs by the fireplace

  Castaway · 19 June 2011·Kirsty Young

• Andrea Levy

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  Andrea Levy

  Andrea Levy on not reading a novel until 23 because the TV was always on

  Castaway · 12 June 2011·Kirsty Young

• Alfie Boe

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  Alfie Boe

  Alfie Boe on holding his father as he died

  Castaway · 5 June 2011·Kirsty Young

• Roger Waters

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  Roger Waters

  Roger Waters on the dream that made him realize he felt he'd killed his father

  Castaway · 29 May 2011·Kirsty Young

• Debbie Harry

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  Debbie Harry

  How a manager's anger gave Debbie Harry her iconic unsmiling album cover

  Castaway · 22 May 2011·Kirsty Young

• Kwame Kwei-Armah

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  Kwame Kwei-Armah

  Kwame Kwei-Armah on changing his name after watching Roots

  Castaway · 15 May 2011·Kirsty Young

• Molly Parkin

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  Molly Parkin

  Molly Parkin on lying in the gutter in a gold llama outfit

  Castaway · 8 May 2011·Kirsty Young

• Prof David Phillips

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  Prof David Phillips

  David Phillips on being interrogated by the KGB for five hours

  Castaway · 1 May 2011·Kirsty Young

• Cath Kidston

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  Cath Kidston

  Cath Kidston on turning a laurel bush into a shop as a child

  Castaway · 24 April 2011·Kirsty Young

• Felicity Green

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  Felicity Green

  How wearing skirts helped Felicity Green navigate Fleet Street's boardroom

  Castaway · 17 April 2011·Kirsty Young

• Terry Gilliam

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  Terry Gilliam

  How Terry Gilliam's jokes about God ended his missionary ambitions

  Castaway · 10 April 2011·Kirsty Young

• Martin Sheen

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  Martin Sheen

  Martin Sheen on Bill Clinton's unsolicited set design advice

  Castaway · 3 April 2011·Kirsty Young

• Dame Anne Owers

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  Dame Anne Owers

  Anne Owers on the panic attack at university that traced back to her father's death

  Castaway · 27 February 2011·Kirsty Young

• Lawrence Dallaglio

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  Lawrence Dallaglio

  Lawrence Dallaglio on the morning he learned his sister was missing

  Castaway · 20 February 2011·Kirsty Young

• Celia Imrie

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  Celia Imrie

  Celia Imrie on being told she was too big for ballet at age 11

  Castaway · 13 February 2011·Kirsty Young

• Howard Jacobson

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  Howard Jacobson

  How crippling shyness haunted Howard Jacobson until Cambridge

  Castaway · 6 February 2011·Kirsty Young

• Jon Snow

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  Jon Snow

  Jon Snow on finding his name on a death list in El Salvador

  Castaway · 30 January 2011·Kirsty Young

• Betty Driver

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  Betty Driver

  How a phone call while pulling pints led Betty Driver to Coronation Street

  Castaway · 23 January 2011·Kirsty Young

• Rt Hon Alex Salmond

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  Rt Hon Alex Salmond

  Alex Salmond on how singing as a boy soprano made Westminster feel like nothing

  Castaway · 16 January 2011·Kirsty Young

• Gyles Brandreth

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  Gyles Brandreth

  Gyles Brandreth on applying to become an MP the day his youngest daughter became a teenager

  Castaway · 9 January 2011·Kirsty Young

• Tony Iveson

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  Tony Iveson

  Tony Iveson on shaking the hand of the German fighter pilot who could have killed him

  Castaway · 2 January 2011·Kirsty Young

• Sandie Shaw

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  Sandie Shaw

  Sandie Shaw on choosing waitressing over touring to keep her integrity

  Castaway · 26 December 2010·Kirsty Young

• Nick Park

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  Nick Park

  Nick Park on the moment he realised Gromit didn't need a mouth

  Castaway · 19 December 2010·Kirsty Young