518 episodes

• Piers Morgan

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  Piers Morgan

  Piers Morgan on walking barefoot on Miami Beach with Rupert Murdoch

  Castaway · 7 June 2009·Kirsty Young

• Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook

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  Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook

  Castaway · 31 May 2009·Kirsty Young

• Caroline

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  Caroline

  Caroline on discovering her mother's secret suitcase of spy inks

  Castaway · 31 May 2009·Kirsty Young

• Barry Humphries

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  Barry Humphries

  How a slip on a frozen stream nearly killed Barry Humphries

  Castaway · 24 May 2009·Kirsty Young

• Peter Sallis

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  Peter Sallis

  Peter Sallis on being cast as the lead in a RAF production of Hay Fever

  Castaway · 17 May 2009·Kirsty Young

• Whoopi Goldberg

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  Whoopi Goldberg

  Whoopi Goldberg on writing to Alice Walker to play the dirt in The Color Purple

  Castaway · 10 May 2009·Kirsty Young

• Sebastian Faulks

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  Sebastian Faulks

  Sebastian Faulks on his publisher's head-in-hands reaction to his Birdsong pitch

  Castaway · 29 March 2009·Kirsty Young

• Athene Donald

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  Athene Donald

  Athene Donald on hiding her parents' separation for two years

  Castaway · 22 March 2009·Kirsty Young

• Baaba Maal

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  Baaba Maal

  Baaba Maal on promising his father he would make songs for the old

  Castaway · 15 March 2009·Kirsty Young

• Richard Madeley

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  Richard Madeley

  Richard Madeley on his wife's 'three pack' reply to his marriage proposal

  Castaway · 8 March 2009·Kirsty Young

• Lord Rix

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  Lord Rix

  Brian Rix on being told to ‘put her away, forget her and start again’

  Castaway · 1 March 2009·Kirsty Young

• David Walliams

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  David Walliams

  David Walliams on signing autographs in a hospice as his father died

  Castaway · 22 February 2009·Kirsty Young

• Professor Dame Kay Davies

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  Professor Dame Kay Davies

  Kay Davies on her parents almost having to glue her to the seat at Oxford

  Castaway · 15 February 2009·Kirsty Young

• David Suchet

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  David Suchet

  David Suchet on looking in the mirror for 20 seconds to become himself

  Castaway · 8 February 2009·Kirsty Young

• Thomas Quasthoff

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  Thomas Quasthoff

  Thomas Quasthoff on being found singing melodies before he could talk

  Castaway · 1 February 2009·Kirsty Young

• Alan Sillitoe

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  Alan Sillitoe

  Alan Sillitoe on writing seven novels before finding a publisher

  Castaway · 25 January 2009·Kirsty Young

• Vincent Cable MP

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  Vincent Cable MP

  Vincent Cable on his father's disgust at his mixed-race marriage

  Castaway · 18 January 2009·Kirsty Young

• Ruth Padel

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  Ruth Padel

  Ruth Padel on the moment she chose to retreat from a tigress in Russia

  Castaway · 11 January 2009·Kirsty Young

• Simon Murray

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  Simon Murray

  Simon Murray on being forced to run in circles with rocks in the Foreign Legion

  Castaway · 4 January 2009·Kirsty Young

• Baroness Haleh Afshar

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  Baroness Haleh Afshar

  Haleh Afshar on how reading Jane Eyre inspired her to leave Iran

  Castaway · 28 December 2008·Kirsty Young

• James Nesbitt

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  James Nesbitt

  James Nesbitt on his mother not speaking to him for a month

  Castaway · 21 December 2008·Kirsty Young

• Michael Deeley

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  Michael Deeley

  Michael Deeley on the secret exhilaration of surviving a shooting in Malaya

  Castaway · 14 December 2008·Kirsty Young

• Marcus du Sautoy

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  Marcus du Sautoy

  Marcus du Sautoy on a teacher with a cigar who showed him the real maths

  Castaway · 7 December 2008·Kirsty Young

• Michael Eavis

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  Michael Eavis

  Michael Eavis on being told to take his hands off Marc Bolan's car

  Castaway · 30 November 2008·Kirsty Young

• Janet Street-Porter

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  Janet Street-Porter

  Janet Street-Porter on her childhood fantasy of being a swapped baby

  Castaway · 23 November 2008·Kirsty Young

• David Davis MP

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  David Davis MP

  David Davis on his stepfather making him face five bullies at age six

  Castaway · 16 November 2008·Kirsty Young

• Allan Ahlberg

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  Allan Ahlberg

  How a girl in the street told Allan Ahlberg he was adopted

  Castaway · 14 November 2008·Kirsty Young

• Shami Chakrabarti

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  Shami Chakrabarti

  Shami Chakrabarti on her earliest political memory of walking to the electric chair

  Castaway · 2 November 2008·Kirsty Young

• Ian Bostridge

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  Ian Bostridge

  Ian Bostridge on his brother's slide lectures on art history

  Castaway · 26 October 2008·Kirsty Young

• Randy Newman

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  Randy Newman

  Randy Newman on receiving a death threat over 'Short People'

  Castaway · 19 October 2008·Kirsty Young

• Sanjeev Bhaskar

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  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  How a coin toss led to Sanjeev Bhaskar's big break

  Castaway · 12 October 2008·Kirsty Young

• David McVicar

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  David McVicar

  David McVicar on being hospitalised mid-opera run

  Castaway · 5 October 2008·Kirsty Young

• Miriam Margolyes

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  Miriam Margolyes

  Miriam Margolyes on telling her mother she had an affair with a woman

  Castaway · 28 September 2008·Kirsty Young

• Ruthie Henshall

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  Ruthie Henshall

  Ruthie Henshall on the sexual abuse that began when she was four and a half

  Castaway · 17 August 2008·Kirsty Young

• AC Grayling

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  AC Grayling

  AC Grayling on discovering Plato's dialogues at age 12

  Castaway · 10 August 2008·Kirsty Young

• Richard Ingrams

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  Richard Ingrams

  Richard Ingrams on confusing God and J. S. Bach

  Castaway · 3 August 2008·Kirsty Young

• Antonia Fraser

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  Antonia Fraser

  Antonia Fraser on her 'don't come in' notice for writing while raising six children

  Castaway · 27 July 2008·Kirsty Young

• John Stefanidis

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  John Stefanidis

  John Stefanidis on landing a seaplane on the Nile as a child

  Castaway · 20 July 2008·Kirsty Young

• Felicity Lott

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  Felicity Lott

  Felicity Lott on replacing Barbara Walker at the English National Opera

  Castaway · 13 July 2008·Kirsty Young

• Antonio Carluccio

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  Antonio Carluccio

  Antonio Carluccio on the sad state of Italian food when he arrived in London

  Castaway · 6 July 2008·Kirsty Young

• Posy Simmonds

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  Posy Simmonds

  Posy Simmonds on starting to draw as soon as she could hold a pencil

  Castaway · 29 June 2008·Kirsty Young

• Ara Darzi

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  Ara Darzi

  Ara Darzi on shocking a peer back to life in the House of Lords

  Castaway · 22 June 2008·Kirsty Young

• Peter Carey

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  Peter Carey

  Peter Carey on his mother's daily battle as a spare parts manager

  Castaway · 20 June 2008·Kirsty Young

• Bill Bailey

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  Bill Bailey

  Bill Bailey on rehearsing his act during a delirious walk home

  Castaway · 8 June 2008·Kirsty Young

• Lord Woolf

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  Lord Woolf

  Harry Woolf on his mother's view that being a barrister was just a hobby

  Castaway · 1 June 2008·Kirsty Young

• Howard Goodall

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  Howard Goodall

  Howard Goodall on the first time a choir sang his music

  Castaway · 25 May 2008·Kirsty Young

• Diane Abbott

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  Diane Abbott

  Diane Abbott on her civil service interview answer: 'Because I want power'

  Castaway · 18 May 2008·Kirsty Young

• Annie Lennox

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  Annie Lennox

  Annie Lennox on losing her first child

  Castaway · 11 May 2008·Kirsty Young

• Penelope Wilton

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  Penelope Wilton

  Penelope Wilton on the warm air from a pantomime stage that made her want to act

  Castaway · 30 March 2008·Kirsty Young

• Stanley McMurtry

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  Stanley McMurtry

  How a little boy's Pokemon cards put Stanley McMurtry in his place

  Castaway · 23 March 2008·Kirsty Young