518 episodes

• 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

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  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

• Judy Murray

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  Judy Murray

  Judy Murray on the heart attack and severe nausea of watching her sons play

  Castaway · 22 June 2014·Kirsty Young

• Raja Shehadeh

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  Raja Shehadeh

  Raja Shehadeh on the military governor calling his father to warn him about his activism

  Castaway · 15 June 2014·Kirsty Young

• Tamara Rojo

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  Tamara Rojo

  Tamara Rojo on first seeing a ballet class as a five-year-old

  Castaway · 8 June 2014·Kirsty Young

• Biddy Baxter

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  Biddy Baxter

  Biddy Baxter on being told nobody from Durham had ever joined the BBC

  Castaway · 1 June 2014·Kirsty Young

• Rene Redzepi

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  Rene Redzepi

  Rene Redzepi on looking back at his family as he fled Macedonia in the night

  Castaway · 25 May 2014·Kirsty Young

• Alison Moyet

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  Alison Moyet

  Alison Moyet on taking a hammer to her gold discs

  Castaway · 18 May 2014·Kirsty Young

• Jack Dee

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  Jack Dee

  Jack Dee on being called thick in front of the entire school

  Castaway · 11 May 2014·Kirsty Young

• Sir Andre Geim

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  Sir Andre Geim

  Andre Geim on being reprimanded for laughing during the military oath

  Castaway · 30 March 2014·Kirsty Young

• Dame Claire Bertschinger

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  Dame Claire Bertschinger

  Claire Bertschinger on choosing which starving children to feed based on a spark in their eyes

  Castaway · 23 March 2014·Kirsty Young

• Murray Walker

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  Murray Walker

  Murray Walker on seeing his father at the front line

  Castaway · 16 March 2014·Kirsty Young

• Lord Richards of Herstmonceux

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  Lord Richards of Herstmonceux

  Richards on adapting his orders to fight back in Sierra Leone

  Castaway · 9 March 2014·Kirsty Young

• Mairi Hedderwick

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  Mairi Hedderwick

  Mairi Hedderwick on crying while watching Katie Morag's TV wedding on a beach

  Castaway · 2 March 2014·Kirsty Young

• Professor Hugh Montgomery

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  Professor Hugh Montgomery

  Hugh Montgomery on smuggling a patient to a Rolling Stones gig

  Castaway · 23 February 2014·Kirsty Young

• Jayne Torvill

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  Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean

  Jayne Torvill on tearing around an ice rink at age nine

  Castaway · 16 February 2014·Kirsty Young