440 episodes

• Sir Torquil Norman

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  Sir Torquil Norman

  Torquil Norman on being given only one bullet to shoot rabbits

  Castaway · 12 December 2010·Kirsty Young

• Frances Wood

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  Frances Wood

  Frances Wood on hanging upside down on a trapeze in the garden

  Castaway · 5 December 2010·Kirsty Young

• Robert Harris

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  Robert Harris

  Robert Harris on politics being his father's football

  Castaway · 28 November 2010·Kirsty Young

• Alice Cooper

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  Alice Cooper

  Alice Cooper on nearly dying of peritonitis aged 10

  Castaway · 21 November 2010·Kirsty Young

• Anna Del Conte

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  Anna Del Conte

  Anna Del Conte on a fascist police chief eating her salame

  Castaway · 19 November 2010·Kirsty Young

• Ian McMillan

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  Ian McMillan

  Ian McMillan on his mother going to prison for love

  Castaway · 7 November 2010·Kirsty Young

• Lang Lang

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  Lang Lang

  Lang Lang on his father telling him to jump off a building

  Castaway · 31 October 2010·Kirsty Young

• Nick Clegg

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  Nick Clegg

  How a text to a friend helped Nick Clegg trust David Cameron

  Castaway · 24 October 2010·Kirsty Young

• Michael Mansfield

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  Michael Mansfield

  Michael Mansfield on having his car blown up outside the Old Bailey

  Castaway · 17 October 2010·Kirsty Young

• Sarah Doukas

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  Sarah Doukas

  Sarah Doukas on spotting a potential model in a Waitrose queue

  Castaway · 10 October 2010·Kirsty Young

• Johnny Vegas

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  Johnny Vegas

  Johnny Vegas on nagging his dad for an ice cream the day he was laid off

  Castaway · 3 October 2010·Kirsty Young

• Sir Tom Jones

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  Sir Tom Jones

  Tom Jones on his father going to work in the coal mine after he bought a Jaguar

  Castaway · 26 September 2010·Kirsty Young

• Kathy Burke

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  Kathy Burke

  Kathy Burke on pretending to miss her mother to get a Mars bar

  Castaway · 15 August 2010·Kirsty Young

• Lord Cobbold

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  Lord Cobbold

  Castaway · 8 August 2010·Kirsty Young

• Lord David Cobbold

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  Lord David Cobbold

  David Cobbold on sending a Girl Guide leader to talk to Mick Jagger

  Castaway · 8 August 2010·Kirsty Young

• Jimmy Mulville

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  Jimmy Mulville

  Jimmy Mulville on spending a year contemplating the death of his acting dreams

  Castaway · 1 August 2010·Kirsty Young

• Lynn Barber

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  Lynn Barber

  Lynn Barber on meeting a conman at a bus stop

  Castaway · 25 July 2010·Kirsty Young

• Tim Robbins

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  Tim Robbins

  Tim Robbins on being thrown off stage for insincerity

  Castaway · 18 July 2010·Kirsty Young

• Dr Gwen Adshead

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  Dr Gwen Adshead

  Gwen Adshead on the moment she says 'when you killed' to a patient

  Castaway · 11 July 2010·Kirsty Young

• Dame Fanny Waterman

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  Dame Fanny Waterman

  Fanny Waterman on sharing a toilet with five neighbours

  Castaway · 4 July 2010·Kirsty Young

• Tony Adams

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  Tony Adams

  Tony Adams on being chased by England supporters at Luton Airport

  Castaway · 27 June 2010·Kirsty Young

• Lewis Gilbert

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  Lewis Gilbert

  Lewis Gilbert on driving a car around the stage aged five

  Castaway · 20 June 2010·Kirsty Young

• Frank Skinner

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  Frank Skinner

  Frank Skinner on being expelled for embezzling school dinner tickets

  Castaway · 13 June 2010·Kirsty Young

• Gyorgy Pauk

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  Gyorgy Pauk

  Gyorgy Pauk on always keeping extra food in hotels after surviving the Budapest ghetto

  Castaway · 30 May 2010·Kirsty Young

• Dame Stephanie Shirley

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  Dame Stephanie Shirley

  Stephanie Shirley on signing her business letters as Steve

  Castaway · 23 May 2010·Kirsty Young

• Rob Brydon

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  Rob Brydon

  Rob Brydon on the shopping channel job that stalled his acting career

  Castaway · 16 May 2010·Kirsty Young

• Fay Weldon

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  Fay Weldon

  Fay Weldon on the earthquake before her birth

  Castaway · 9 May 2010·Kirsty Young

• Emma Thompson

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  Emma Thompson

  Emma Thompson on her parents laughing at her snowflake ballet performance

  Castaway · 28 March 2010·Kirsty Young

• Frank Cottrell-Boyce

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  Frank Cottrell-Boyce

  Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Sister Paul reading his work aloud at age 11

  Castaway · 21 March 2010·Kirsty Young

• Duncan Bannatyne

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  Duncan Bannatyne

  Duncan Bannatyne on his father eating a rat during the war

  Castaway · 14 March 2010·Kirsty Young

• Maggie Aderin-Pocock

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  Maggie Aderin-Pocock

  Maggie Aderin-Pocock on vowing to be as good as any boy to prove her father wrong

  Castaway · 7 March 2010·Kirsty Young

• June Spencer

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  June Spencer

  Castaway · 28 February 2010·Kirsty Young

• Sir Clive Woodward

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  Sir Clive Woodward

  Clive Woodward on watching the blood capsule scandal on TV

  Castaway · 21 February 2010·Kirsty Young

• Professor Jim Al-Khalili

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  Professor Jim Al-Khalili

  How a 4,000-volt near-miss sent Jim Al-Khalili from the lab to theory

  Castaway · 14 February 2010·Kirsty Young

• Gok Wan

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  Gok Wan

  Gok Wan on looking at his naked reflection in a wardrobe mirror

  Castaway · 7 February 2010·Kirsty Young

• Mary Beard

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  Mary Beard

  Mary Beard on how her breastfeeding heroism was remembered as dereliction of duty

  Castaway · 31 January 2010·Kirsty Young

• Frank Warren

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  Frank Warren

  Frank Warren on being shot and initially thinking it was a joke

  Castaway · 24 January 2010·Kirsty Young

• James Ellroy

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  James Ellroy

  James Ellroy on the relief he felt when his mother was murdered

  Castaway · 17 January 2010·Kirsty Young

• Mary Portas

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  Mary Portas

  Mary Portas on her tearful supermarket encounter with her father's second wife

  Castaway · 10 January 2010·Kirsty Young

• John Copley

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  John Copley

  John Copley on cooking pasta sauce with Pavarotti

  Castaway · 3 January 2010·Kirsty Young