518 episodes

• Dame Elish Angiolini

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  Dame Elish Angiolini

  Elish Angiolini on the fickle finger of fate that put her on a doomed train

  Castaway · 9 February 2014·Kirsty Young

• Bob Harris

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  Bob Harris

  Bob Harris on the truth behind his dust-up with the Sex Pistols

  Castaway · 2 February 2014·Kirsty Young

• Sir Ben Ainslie

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  Sir Ben Ainslie

  Ben Ainslie on returning to school as a world champion

  Castaway · 26 January 2014·Kirsty Young

• Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin

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  Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin

  Rose Hudson-Wilkin on fetching water from a standpipe as a child in Jamaica

  Castaway · 19 January 2014·Kirsty Young

• Nicola Benedetti

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  Nicola Benedetti

  Nicola Benedetti on choosing to practise over a birthday party aged eight

  Castaway · 12 January 2014·Kirsty Young

• Ray Mears

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  Ray Mears

  Ray Mears on the sound of aluminium grinding in his helicopter crash

  Castaway · 5 January 2014·Kirsty Young

• Ant

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  Ant and Dec

  Ant and Dec on the stunned silence after being written out of Byker Grove

  Castaway · 29 December 2013·Kirsty Young

• Miranda Hart

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  Miranda Hart

  Miranda Hart on Eric Morecambe turning to camera and smiling at her

  Castaway · 22 December 2013·Kirsty Young

• Gillian Clarke

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  Gillian Clarke

  Gillian Clarke on saying no to becoming National Poet of Wales

  Castaway · 15 December 2013·Kirsty Young

• Barbara Hulanicki

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  Barbara Hulanicki

  Barbara Hulanicki on never saying goodbye to her father

  Castaway · 8 December 2013·Kirsty Young

• Clare Balding

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  Clare Balding

  Clare Balding on her grandmother calling her coming out disgusting

  Castaway · 1 December 2013·Kirsty Young

• Rt Hon Ed Miliband

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  Rt Hon Ed Miliband

  Ed Miliband on the only time he ever prayed

  Castaway · 24 November 2013·Kirsty Young

• Malorie Blackman

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  Malorie Blackman

  Malorie Blackman on being accused of stealing a first-class train ticket

  Castaway · 17 November 2013·Kirsty Young

• Alfred Brendel

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  Alfred Brendel

  Alfred Brendel on seeing Hitler’s motorcade as a child

  Castaway · 15 November 2013·Kirsty Young

• Sir Ken Robinson

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  Sir Ken Robinson

  Ken Robinson on meeting his wife Terry the week his father died

  Castaway · 3 November 2013·Kirsty Young

• Professor Tanya Byron

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  Professor Tanya Byron

  Tanya Byron on how her grandmother’s murder sparked her interest in psychology

  Castaway · 27 October 2013·Kirsty Young

• Jeremy Hutchinson

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  Jeremy Hutchinson

  Jeremy Hutchinson on singing 'Roll out the barrel' with Lord Mountbatten

  Castaway · 20 October 2013·Kirsty Young

• Chris Packham

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  Chris Packham

  Chris Packham on illegally taking a kestrel from its nest

  Castaway · 13 October 2013·Kirsty Young

• Carolyn McCall

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  Carolyn McCall

  Carolyn McCall on never cooking until university

  Castaway · 6 October 2013·Kirsty Young

• Lee Mack

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  Lee Mack

  Lee Mack on doing Bobby Ball impressions to fit in at a new school

  Castaway · 29 September 2013·Kirsty Young

• Zadie Smith

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  Zadie Smith

  Zadie Smith on sitting in her future husband’s room until 4am

  Castaway · 22 September 2013·Kirsty Young

• Daniel Kahneman

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  Daniel Kahneman

  Daniel Kahneman on being hugged by an SS soldier as a boy

  Castaway · 11 August 2013·Kirsty Young

• Eve Stewart

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  Eve Stewart

  How Eve Stewart's father went to a party and never came back

  Castaway · 4 August 2013·Kirsty Young

• Mary Robinson

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  Mary Robinson

  Mary Robinson on walking down Grafton Street and feeling like the devil incarnate

  Castaway · 28 July 2013·Kirsty Young

• Russell Brand

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  Russell Brand

  Russell Brand on bringing crack addicts into the radio studio with him

  Castaway · 21 July 2013·Kirsty Young

• Val McDermid

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  Val McDermid

  Val McDermid on the pizza that wasn't a pizza

  Castaway · 14 July 2013·Kirsty Young

• Jane Somerville

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  Jane Somerville

  Jane Somerville on burning her husband’s shirt to avoid ironing

  Castaway · 7 July 2013·Kirsty Young

• Steven Pinker

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  Steven Pinker

  Steven Pinker on the hate mail he got for using 'snuck'

  Castaway · 30 June 2013·Kirsty Young

• Hugh Laurie

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  Hugh Laurie

  Hugh Laurie on being bored in a stock car race with exploding cars

  Castaway · 23 June 2013·Kirsty Young

• Alexandra Shulman

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  Alexandra Shulman

  Alexandra Shulman on her English teacher saying she might work in a kindergarten

  Castaway · 16 June 2013·Kirsty Young

• Conrad Anker

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  Conrad Anker

  Conrad Anker on being called a grave robber after discovering Mallory's body

  Castaway · 9 June 2013·Kirsty Young

• Sir Mervyn King

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  Sir Mervyn King

  Mervyn King on celebrating Bank independence alone with Eddie George

  Castaway · 2 June 2013·Kirsty Young

• Deborah Bull

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  Deborah Bull

  How a night at the Oxford Union changed Deborah Bull's life

  Castaway · 26 May 2013·Kirsty Young

• Alice Walker

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  Alice Walker

  Alice Walker on being shot in the eye by her brother and told to lie

  Castaway · 19 May 2013·Kirsty Young

• Damien Hirst

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  Damien Hirst

  How a Richard Serra sculpture gave Damien Hirst the idea for a walk-through cow

  Castaway · 12 May 2013·Kirsty Young

• Sir Sydney Kentridge

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  Sir Sydney Kentridge

  Sydney Kentridge on representing three Nobel Peace Prize winners

  Castaway · 31 March 2013·Kirsty Young

• Jasvinder Sanghera

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  Jasvinder Sanghera

  Jasvinder Sanghera on being told she was dead in her mother's eyes for refusing a forced marriage

  Castaway · 24 March 2013·Kirsty Young

• Julie Goodyear

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  Julie Goodyear

  Julie Goodyear on learning her son was saving pocket money for a dad

  Castaway · 17 March 2013·Kirsty Young

• David Almond

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  David Almond

  David Almond on being called an overnight success after twenty years of writing

  Castaway · 10 March 2013·Kirsty Young

• Rankin

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  Rankin

  Rankin on asking the Queen to smile

  Castaway · 3 March 2013·Kirsty Young

• Uta Frith

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  Uta Frith

  Uta Frith on her idyllic childhood in wartime Germany

  Castaway · 24 February 2013·Kirsty Young

• Jonathan Agnew

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  Jonathan Agnew

  Jonathan Agnew on digging a bear trap for Geoffrey Boycott

  Castaway · 17 February 2013·Kirsty Young

• Julie Burchill

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  Julie Burchill

  Julie Burchill on reading Oscar Wilde instead of getting a Saturday job

  Castaway · 10 February 2013·Kirsty Young

• Sir Terry Leahy

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  Sir Terry Leahy

  Terry Leahy on being the class clown at school

  Castaway · 3 February 2013·Kirsty Young

• Aung San Suu Kyi

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  Aung San Suu Kyi

  How Aung San Suu Kyi refused to visit her dying husband

  Castaway · 27 January 2013·Kirsty Young

• Beryl Vertue

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  Beryl Vertue

  Beryl Vertue on playing cards with matches for money with Tony Hancock

  Castaway · 20 January 2013·Kirsty Young

• Martin Carthy

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  Martin Carthy

  Martin Carthy on Paul Simon taking Scarborough Fair

  Castaway · 13 January 2013·Kirsty Young

• Sir Howard Stringer

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  Sir Howard Stringer

  Howard Stringer on having lunch with Henry VIII

  Castaway · 6 January 2013·Kirsty Young

• Anya Hindmarch

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  Anya Hindmarch

  Anya Hindmarch on Margaret Thatcher clutching one of her handbags

  Castaway · 30 December 2012·Kirsty Young

• Dawn French

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  Dawn French

  Dawn French on expecting a unicorn and a crown from the Queen Mother

  Castaway · 23 December 2012·Kirsty Young