518 episodes

• Tom Daley

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  Tom Daley

  Tom Daley on freezing on the way up to his third dive at age 12

  Castaway · 30 September 2018·Kirsty Young

• Henry Marsh

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  Henry Marsh

  How a nightmarish hospital dash taught Henry Marsh to ask for help

  Castaway · 23 September 2018·Kirsty Young

• Danielle de Niese

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  Danielle de Niese

  Danielle de Niese on pretending each performance never happened before

  Castaway · 16 September 2018·Kirsty Young

• Malorie Blackman

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  Malorie Blackman

  Castaway · 9 September 2018·Kirsty Young

• Pam Ayres

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  Pam Ayres

  How a shaming moment made Pam Ayres decide to leave home

  Castaway · 5 August 2018·Kirsty Young

• Marianne Elliott

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  Marianne Elliott

  Marianne Elliott on hiding under the table as a child

  Castaway · 29 July 2018·Kirsty Young

• Baroness Newlove

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  Baroness Newlove

  Helen Newlove on her daughters pulling her husband’s tongue out to save him

  Castaway · 22 July 2018·Kirsty Young

• Billie Jean King

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  Billie Jean King

  Billie Jean King on sleeping with her purple tennis racket

  Castaway · 15 July 2018·Kirsty Young

• Philip Treacy

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  Philip Treacy

  Philip Treacy on asking to sew with the girls at school

  Castaway · 8 July 2018·Kirsty Young

• Guy Singh-Watson

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  Guy Singh-Watson

  Guy Singh-Watson on lying to a competitor during a consulting interview

  Castaway · 1 July 2018·Kirsty Young

• Martina Cole

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  Martina Cole

  Martina Cole on being expelled from convent school for reading Harold Robbins' The Betsy

  Castaway · 24 June 2018·Kirsty Young

• John Motson

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  John Motson

  John Motson on Brian Clough giving him both barrels

  Castaway · 17 June 2018·Kirsty Young

• Professor Carlos Frenk

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  Professor Carlos Frenk

  How a chance encounter in a bookshop sent Carlos Frenk's family to Mexico

  Castaway · 10 June 2018·Kirsty Young

• Gillian Reynolds

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  Gillian Reynolds

  Gillian Reynolds on the red dots that proved she was born lucky

  Castaway · 3 June 2018·Kirsty Young

• David Baddiel

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  David Baddiel

  David Baddiel on his father calling English a waste of a brain

  Castaway · 27 May 2018·Kirsty Young

• Dr Sue Black

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  Dr Sue Black

  Sue Black on discovering that most Bletchley Park codebreakers were women

  Castaway · 20 May 2018·Kirsty Young

• Sir Peter Lampl

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  Sir Peter Lampl

  Peter Lampl on funding the campaign for a handgun ban after Dunblane

  Castaway · 13 May 2018·Kirsty Young

• Abi Morgan

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  Abi Morgan

  Abi Morgan on a mother's laughter that revealed 'you've known insanity'

  Castaway · 6 May 2018·Kirsty Young

• Sue Townsend

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  Sue Townsend

  Castaway · 29 April 2018·Kirsty Young

• Annie Lennox

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  Annie Lennox

  Castaway · 22 April 2018·Kirsty Young

• Stephen Hawking

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  Stephen Hawking

  Castaway · 15 April 2018·Kirsty Young

• Victoria Wood

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  Victoria Wood

  Castaway · 8 April 2018·Kirsty Young

• Hugh Masekela

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  Hugh Masekela

  Castaway · 1 April 2018·Kirsty Young

• Anne-Marie Duff

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  Anne-Marie Duff

  Anne-Marie Duff on the thousand letters that launched her acting career

  Castaway · 25 March 2018·Kirsty Young

• David Byrne

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  David Byrne

  David Byrne on his father cutting paintings to fit frames

  Castaway · 18 March 2018·Kirsty Young

• John Gray

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  John Gray

  John Gray on hearing Isaiah Berlin's firsthand account of the Russian revolutions

  Castaway · 11 March 2018·Kirsty Young

• Matt Smith

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  Matt Smith

  Matt Smith on singing the Doctor Who theme tune to Jodie Whittaker

  Castaway · 4 March 2018·Kirsty Young

• Dame Minouche Shafik

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  Dame Minouche Shafik

  Minouche Shafik on her mother crying at the mailbox after moving to America

  Castaway · 25 February 2018·Kirsty Young

• Christopher Nolan

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  Christopher Nolan

  Christopher Nolan on seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey on an enormous screen as a child

  Castaway · 18 February 2018·Kirsty Young

• Chi-chi Nwanoku

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  Chi-chi Nwanoku

  Chi-chi Nwanoku on her parents seeing a sign that said 'no blacks, no dogs, no Irish'

  Castaway · 11 February 2018·Kirsty Young

• Jack Whitehall

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  Jack Whitehall

  Jack Whitehall on dressing up as Robin Hood for every family function

  Castaway · 4 February 2018·Kirsty Young

• Garry Kasparov

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  Garry Kasparov

  Garry Kasparov on his mother refusing to let him quit during a losing match

  Castaway · 28 January 2018·Kirsty Young

• Christina Lamb

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  Christina Lamb

  Christina Lamb on women in Aleppo frying flour sandwiches to feed their children

  Castaway · 21 January 2018·Kirsty Young

• Angela Hartnett

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  Angela Hartnett

  How chefs bet on how long Angela Hartnett would last at Aubergine

  Castaway · 14 January 2018·Kirsty Young

• Charlie Brooker

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  Charlie Brooker

  Charlie Brooker on holding his newborn child and feeling like an upgrade

  Castaway · 7 January 2018·Kirsty Young

• 75 Years of Desert Island Discs

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  75 Years of Desert Island Discs

  Eric Brown on looping the Forth Bridge in a Spitfire

  Castaway · 31 December 2017·Kirsty Young

• Bruno Tonioli

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  Bruno Tonioli

  How a diva's walk-out helped Bruno Tonioli land his first theatre role

  Castaway · 24 December 2017·Kirsty Young

• Christine McVie

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  Christine McVie

  Christine McVie on writing Songbird after champagne and cocaine

  Castaway · 17 December 2017·Kirsty Young

• Kelsey Grammer

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  Kelsey Grammer

  Kelsey Grammer on forgiving the man who murdered his sister

  Castaway · 10 December 2017·Kirsty Young

• Tim Martin

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  Tim Martin

  Tim Martin on his failed attempt to become a world champion squash player

  Castaway · 3 December 2017·Kirsty Young

• Naomi Klein

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  Naomi Klein

  How the Montreal massacre made Naomi Klein a feminist

  Castaway · 26 November 2017·Kirsty Young

• Micky Flanagan

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  Micky Flanagan

  Micky Flanagan on the summer of his life working in a kitchen

  Castaway · 19 November 2017·Kirsty Young

• Anna Pavord

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  Anna Pavord

  How Anna Pavord crawled out of hospital to feel grass after cancer treatment

  Castaway · 17 November 2017·Kirsty Young

• Professor Phil Scraton

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  Professor Phil Scraton

  Phil Scraton on watching a poor boy punished in assembly and knowing it was wrong

  Castaway · 5 November 2017·Kirsty Young

• Kay Mellor

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  Kay Mellor

  Kay Mellor on wearing heavy clothes to a slimming group

  Castaway · 29 October 2017·Kirsty Young

• Edna Adan Ismail

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  Edna Adan Ismail

  Edna Adan Ismail on delivering the first baby at her own maternity hospital

  Castaway · 22 October 2017·Kirsty Young

• Jane Gardam

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  Jane Gardam

  How a chance meeting on a train told Jane Gardam she was a writer

  Castaway · 15 October 2017·Kirsty Young

• Sir James MacMillan

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  Sir James MacMillan

  James MacMillan on leaving a Young Communist League conference to attend Mass

  Castaway · 8 October 2017·Kirsty Young

• Siddhartha Mukherjee

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  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Siddhartha Mukherjee on his grandmother’s seven articles of clothing and one daily meal

  Castaway · 1 October 2017·Kirsty Young

• Professor Dame Jane Francis

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  Professor Dame Jane Francis

  Jane Francis on accidentally making antifreeze instead of ice cream in Antarctica

  Castaway · 24 September 2017·Kirsty Young