1661 episodes

• James Galway

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  James Galway

  James Galway on being forced by German law to take a job he won

  Castaway · 14 August 1976·Roy Plomley

• Melvyn Bragg

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  Melvyn Bragg

  Melvyn Bragg on being addicted to reading anything from sauce bottles to the Old Testament

  Castaway · 7 August 1976·Roy Plomley

• George Guest

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  George Guest

  George Guest on why he would barely last a week on a desert island

  Castaway · 31 July 1976·Roy Plomley

• Mel Torme

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  Mel Torme

  Mel Torme on how 'Mountain Greenery' became a UK number one after being cut from a film

  Castaway · 24 July 1976·Roy Plomley

• Philip Larkin

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  Philip Larkin

  Philip Larkin on spending months in the Bodleian Library stacks

  Castaway · 17 July 1976·Roy Plomley

• Alan Pascoe

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  Alan Pascoe

  Alan Pascoe on why he switched to the 400m hurdles rather than take drugs

  Castaway · 10 July 1976·Roy Plomley

• Most Rev Rt Hon Stuart Blanch

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  Most Rev Rt Hon Stuart Blanch

  Stuart Blanch on being accepted at the first Church of England selection conference in Calcutta

  Castaway · 3 July 1976·Roy Plomley

• Philip Jones

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  Philip Jones

  Philip Jones on writing tunes for brass instruments to attack boredom

  Castaway · 26 June 1976·Roy Plomley

• Len Deighton

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  Len Deighton

  How a blatant lie about German helped Len Deighton get a job at BOAC

  Castaway · 19 June 1976·Roy Plomley

• Malcolm Williamson

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  Malcolm Williamson

  How treading on a lady’s foot ended Malcolm Williamson’s conducting career

  Castaway · 12 June 1976·Roy Plomley

• Eric Simms

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  Eric Simms

  How Eric Simms hauled 1,800 feet of cable up a cliff to record a golden eagle

  Castaway · 5 June 1976·Roy Plomley

• Douglas Fairbanks Jnr

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  Douglas Fairbanks Jnr

  Douglas Fairbanks Jnr on being sacked from his first film job at 13

  Castaway · 29 May 1976·Roy Plomley

• Tony Greig

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  Tony Greig

  How a garden boy nicknamed Tackies taught Tony Greig cricket

  Castaway · 22 May 1976·Roy Plomley

• John Laurie

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  John Laurie

  How John Laurie was carried from Passchendale on a stretcher, unwounded

  Castaway · 15 May 1976·Roy Plomley

• John Napier

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  John Napier

  John Napier on his mother forbidding him from becoming an actor

  Castaway · 8 May 1976·Roy Plomley

• Sir William Gladstone

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  Sir William Gladstone

  William Gladstone on drinking his family's wine cellar in ten years

  Castaway · 1 May 1976·Roy Plomley

• Glynis Johns

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  Glynis Johns

  Glynis Johns on making her first stage appearance at a few days old

  Castaway · 24 April 1976·Roy Plomley

• Dr Christiaan Barnard

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  Dr Christiaan Barnard

  Christiaan Barnard on the loneliness after his first transplant patient died

  Castaway · 17 April 1976·Roy Plomley

• John Pardoe

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  John Pardoe

  John Pardoe on how Suez made him so angry he entered politics

  Castaway · 10 April 1976·Roy Plomley

• Charlotte Rampling

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  Charlotte Rampling

  How seeing herself in Rotten to the Core left Charlotte Rampling in tears

  Castaway · 3 April 1976·Roy Plomley

• Paul Theroux

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  Paul Theroux

  How Paul Theroux tried being Robinson Crusoe on Lamu island

  Castaway · 27 March 1976·Roy Plomley

• Rosina Harrison

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  Rosina Harrison

  Rosina Harrison on catching a fish she never got to eat

  Castaway · 20 March 1976·Roy Plomley

• Noel Barber

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  Noel Barber

  Noel Barber on a 105-year-old man who apologised for being late after a four-mile walk

  Castaway · 13 March 1976·Roy Plomley

• Vincent Brome

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  Vincent Brome

  Vincent Brome on wanting an inflatable woman to write on

  Castaway · 6 March 1976·Roy Plomley

• Sir Robert Mark

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  Sir Robert Mark

  Robert Mark on his four months on night duty in the slums of Manchester

  Castaway · 28 February 1976·Roy Plomley

• Tim Rice

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  Tim Rice

  Tim Rice on his first success Joseph starting as a ten-minute prep school concert

  Castaway · 21 February 1976·Roy Plomley

• Luciano Pavarotti

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  Luciano Pavarotti

  Luciano Pavarotti on not being able to imagine himself alone for more than a day

  Castaway · 14 February 1976·Roy Plomley

• Lynn Seymour

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  Lynn Seymour

  Lynn Seymour on being bowled over by a dancer after watching The Red Shoes

  Castaway · 7 February 1976·Roy Plomley

• Ronnie Scott

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  Ronnie Scott

  How Ronnie Scott chose a saxophone over an inflatable Faye Dunaway doll

  Castaway · 31 January 1976·Roy Plomley

• Gavin Lyall

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  Gavin Lyall

  Gavin Lyall on not eating a polar bear's liver

  Castaway · 24 January 1976·Roy Plomley

• Noel Streatfeild

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  Noel Streatfeild

  How a flash of inspiration at the Barrier Reef made Noel Streatfeild a novelist

  Castaway · 17 January 1976·Roy Plomley

• Sherrill Milnes

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  Sherrill Milnes

  Sherrill Milnes on building something substantial to escape a desert island

  Castaway · 10 January 1976·Roy Plomley

• Julia Foster

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  Julia Foster

  Julia Foster on winning a poetry competition at Brighton Dome aged 13

  Castaway · 3 January 1976·Roy Plomley

• Bing Crosby

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  Bing Crosby

  Bing Crosby on quitting law school to play in a band at a Chinese restaurant

  Castaway · 27 December 1975·Roy Plomley

• Margaret Price

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  Margaret Price

  Margaret Price on quarrelling with James Lockhart at her Covent Garden audition

  Castaway · 13 December 1975·Roy Plomley

• Frederick Forsyth

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  Frederick Forsyth

  Castaway · 6 December 1975·Roy Plomley

• Ron Moody

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  Ron Moody

  How Alec Guinness's plastic nose worried Ron Moody about playing Fagin

  Castaway · 29 November 1975·Roy Plomley

• Graham Thomas

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  Graham Thomas

  Graham Thomas on his godfather giving him a fuchsia at age six

  Castaway · 22 November 1975·Roy Plomley

• Vince Hill

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  Vince Hill

  How a year down the coal mines helped Vince Hill avoid the army

  Castaway · 15 November 1975·Roy Plomley

• William Frankel

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  William Frankel

  Castaway · 1 November 1975·Roy Plomley

• Stanley Holloway

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  Stanley Holloway

  Stanley Holloway on his first job taking his boss's head to be ironed

  Castaway · 25 October 1975·Roy Plomley

• John Julius Norwich

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  John Julius Norwich

  John Julius Norwich on attending the Nuremberg trials as a schoolboy

  Castaway · 18 October 1975·Roy Plomley

• Doris Hare

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  Doris Hare

  Doris Hare on making her stage debut aged three weeks

  Castaway · 11 October 1975·Roy Plomley

• Paul Jennings

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  Paul Jennings

  Castaway · 4 October 1975·Roy Plomley

• Lord Carrington

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  Lord Carrington

  Castaway · 27 September 1975·Roy Plomley

• Bevis Hillier

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  Bevis Hillier

  Castaway · 20 September 1975·Roy Plomley

• Alec Waugh

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  Alec Waugh

  Castaway · 6 September 1975·Roy Plomley

• Jimmy Jewel

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  Jimmy Jewel

  Castaway · 30 August 1975·Roy Plomley

• Robert Robinson

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  Robert Robinson

  Robert Robinson on comparing a desert island to a stuck lift

  Castaway · 16 August 1975·Roy Plomley

• Jean Simmons

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  Jean Simmons

  Castaway · 9 August 1975·Roy Plomley