309 episodes

• David Sedaris

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  David Sedaris

  David Sedaris on being called a big fat zero by his father

  Castaway · 12 February 2023·Lauren Laverne

• Lesley Manville

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  Lesley Manville

  Lesley Manville on listening to Princess Margaret's Desert Island Discs for The Crown

  Castaway · 5 February 2023·Lauren Laverne

• Professor Corinne Le Quéré

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  Professor Corinne Le Quéré

  Corinne Le Quéré on bringing 100,000-year-old ice that pops like Rice Krispies

  Castaway · 29 January 2023·Lauren Laverne

• Michael Pollan

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  Michael Pollan

  Michael Pollan on his ego dissolving into blue post-it notes

  Castaway · 22 January 2023·Lauren Laverne

• Gabby Logan

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  Gabby Logan

  Gabby Logan on leading her siblings out of the Bradford fire

  Castaway · 15 January 2023·Lauren Laverne

• Sir Malcolm Walker

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  Sir Malcolm Walker

  Malcolm Walker on his father's foot being crushed by a coal cutter

  Castaway · 8 January 2023·Lauren Laverne

• Kirsty Young

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  Kirsty Young

  How a colleague drove Kirsty Young to hand in her BBC application

  Castaway · 25 December 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Steven Spielberg

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  Steven Spielberg

  How a three-minute western for a Boy Scout merit badge sparked Steven Spielberg's filmmaking bug

  Castaway · 18 December 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Cate Blanchett

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  Cate Blanchett

  How a Muppet movie screening told Cate Blanchett her father had died

  Castaway · 11 December 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Edward Enninful

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  Edward Enninful

  Edward Enninful on being scouted by a stylist on the Tube

  Castaway · 4 December 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Baz Luhrmann

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  Baz Luhrmann

  Baz Luhrmann on thinking Romeo + Juliet would be small and easy

  Castaway · 27 November 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Barry Hearn

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  Barry Hearn

  How making up stories saved Barry Hearn's business in 1989

  Castaway · 20 November 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Professor Jean Golding

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  Professor Jean Golding

  Jean Golding on delivering a letter to the Vice Chancellor in his pinny

  Castaway · 18 November 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Richard E Grant

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  Richard E Grant

  Richard E Grant on witnessing his mother with his father's best friend at age 10

  Castaway · 6 November 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Professor Angela Gallop

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  Professor Angela Gallop

  Angela Gallop on taking a Buzz Lightyear toy to a police lecture

  Castaway · 30 October 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Rick Rubin

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  Rick Rubin

  Rick Rubin on sleeping in his parents' bed until age five

  Castaway · 23 October 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Maxine Peake

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  Maxine Peake

  Maxine Peake on watching her dad laugh at The Goodies and wanting to make him laugh

  Castaway · 16 October 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Kevin Sinfield

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  Kevin Sinfield

  Kevin Sinfield on being covered in mud as a child

  Castaway · 9 October 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Dr Waheed Arian

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  Dr Waheed Arian

  Waheed Arian on burning his passport in a plane toilet at Heathrow

  Castaway · 2 October 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Jay Blades

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  Jay Blades

  Jay Blades on his intention to drive into a bridge

  Castaway · 25 September 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Sue Barker

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  Sue Barker

  Sue Barker on her mother Betty Six Gins for Nothing

  Castaway · 18 September 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Andrea Levy

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  Andrea Levy

  Castaway · 11 September 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Stephen Graham

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  Stephen Graham

  Castaway · 4 September 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Raymond Briggs

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  Raymond Briggs

  Castaway · 28 August 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Kay Mellor

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  Kay Mellor

  Castaway · 21 August 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Baroness Sue Campbell

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  Baroness Sue Campbell

  Castaway · 14 August 2022·Lauren Laverne

• John Legend

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  John Legend

  John Legend on being nicknamed 'the legend' by a friend before he had a record deal

  Castaway · 7 August 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Clare Smyth

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  Clare Smyth

  Clare Smyth on cooking for the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan

  Castaway · 31 July 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Kate Moss

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  Kate Moss

  Kate Moss on testifying that Johnny Depp never kicked her down the stairs

  Castaway · 24 July 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Kate Ewart-Biggs

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  Kate Ewart-Biggs

  Kate Ewart-Biggs on her bilingual childhood in France

  Castaway · 17 July 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Andrew Ramroop

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  Andrew Ramroop

  Andrew Ramroop on the boat that never arrived to take him from Trinidad

  Castaway · 10 July 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Adele

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  Adele

  How postponing her Las Vegas residency left Adele a shell of a person

  Castaway · 3 July 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Bono

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  Bono

  Bono on turning a song into a prayer

  Castaway · 26 June 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Rita Tushingham

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  Rita Tushingham

  Rita Tushingham on how people shouted 'Black and white don't mix' at her and Paul Danqua

  Castaway · 19 June 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Frances O'Grady

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  Frances O'Grady

  How a teacher grabbed Frances O'Grady by the scruff of the neck

  Castaway · 12 June 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Jon Ronson

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  Jon Ronson

  Jon Ronson on getting on buses alone in London as a child

  Castaway · 5 June 2022·Lauren Laverne

• David Harewood

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  David Harewood

  David Harewood on being told 'get out of my country' aged seven

  Castaway · 29 May 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Ellie Simmonds

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  Ellie Simmonds

  Ellie Simmonds on the sofa moment that sparked her Paralympic dream

  Castaway · 22 May 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Bradley Walsh

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  Bradley Walsh

  Bradley Walsh on being let go by Brentford after fracturing both ankles

  Castaway · 15 May 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Fiona Hill

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  Fiona Hill

  Fiona Hill on bleeding from the nose at her Oxford interview

  Castaway · 8 May 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Desert Island Discoveries - Lauren Laverne

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  Desert Island Discoveries - Lauren Laverne and Vick Hope

  Castaway · 1 May 2022·Lauren Laverne

• George Michael

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  George Michael

  Castaway · 24 April 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Maya Angelou

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  Maya Angelou

  Castaway · 17 April 2022·Lauren Laverne

• June Brown

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  June Brown

  Castaway · 10 April 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Jens Stoltenberg

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  Jens Stoltenberg

  Castaway · 3 April 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Winnie Byanyima

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  Winnie Byanyima

  Winnie Byanyima on the day her friend went from playing with dolls to becoming a bride

  Castaway · 27 March 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Alan Cumming

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  Alan Cumming

  Alan Cumming on confronting his violent father with his brother

  Castaway · 20 March 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Robert Plant

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  Robert Plant

  Robert Plant on driving to a rehearsal with a bandmate and driving back without him

  Castaway · 13 March 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Oti Mabuse

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  Oti Mabuse

  Oti Mabuse on being caught picking up her dog’s poop

  Castaway · 6 March 2022·Lauren Laverne

• Professor Nick Webborn

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  Professor Nick Webborn

  Nick Webborn on the moment he heard a crack in his neck on a rugby field

  Castaway · 27 February 2022·Lauren Laverne