1661 episodes

• Richard Walker

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  Richard Walker

  Richard Walker on starting fishing at the age of four with his grandfather

  Castaway · 6 July 1974·Roy Plomley

• Osian Ellis

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  Osian Ellis

  Castaway · 29 June 1974·Roy Plomley

• Max Wall

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  Max Wall

  Castaway · 22 June 1974·Roy Plomley

• Mark Lubbock

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  Mark Lubbock

  Castaway · 15 June 1974·Roy Plomley

• Leslie Mitchell

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  Leslie Mitchell

  How Leslie Mitchell spoke the first words on television

  Castaway · 1 June 1974·Roy Plomley

• James Stewart

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  James Stewart

  James Stewart on his disastrous debut as an accordion player

  Castaway · 25 May 1974·Roy Plomley

• T C Fairbairn

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  T C Fairbairn

  T C Fairbairn on driving a crane as his first job

  Castaway · 18 May 1974·Roy Plomley

• Antoinette Sibley

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  Antoinette Sibley

  Castaway · 11 May 1974·Roy Plomley

• Arthur Marshall

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  Arthur Marshall

  Castaway · 4 May 1974·Roy Plomley

• David Dimbleby

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  David Dimbleby

  David Dimbleby on receiving letters that say his father would be ashamed of him

  Castaway · 27 April 1974·Roy Plomley

• Dr Thor Heyerdahl

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  Dr Thor Heyerdahl

  Castaway · 13 April 1974·Roy Plomley

• John Major

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  John & Roy Boulting

  Castaway · 6 April 1974·Roy Plomley

• Philip Hope-Wallace

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  Philip Hope-Wallace

  How Philip Hope-Wallace was laughed at for naming Handel and Verdi as favourite composers at Oxford

  Castaway · 30 March 1974·Roy Plomley

• Edward Woodward

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  Edward Woodward

  Castaway · 23 March 1974·Roy Plomley

• Brian Johnston

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  Brian Johnston

  How asking about the butter ration in Oxford Street got Brian Johnston into the BBC

  Castaway · 16 March 1974·Roy Plomley

• Eileen Fowler

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  Eileen Fowler

  Castaway · 9 March 1974·Roy Plomley

• Maureen O'Sullivan

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  Maureen O'Sullivan

  Castaway · 2 March 1974·Roy Plomley

• Eddie Waring

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  Eddie Waring

  Eddie Waring on being the first rugby league writer to tour Australia in 1946

  Castaway · 23 February 1974·Roy Plomley

• Roy Fox

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  Roy Fox

  Roy Fox on naming Jean Harlow

  Castaway · 16 February 1974·Roy Plomley

• Brian Inglis

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  Brian Inglis

  Brian Inglis on the war coming mercifully to spare him from deciding his career

  Castaway · 9 February 1974·Roy Plomley

• John Brooke-Little

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  John Brooke-Little

  Castaway · 26 January 1974·Roy Plomley

• Bernard Haitink

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  Bernard Haitink

  Castaway · 19 January 1974·Roy Plomley

• Sir Terence Rattigan

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  Sir Terence Rattigan

  How a theatrical party got Terence Rattigan sent down from Oxford

  Castaway · 12 January 1974·Roy Plomley

• Dr Jacob Bronowski

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  Dr Jacob Bronowski

  Jacob Bronowski on telling the BBC he didn't mean to make a science series like Kenneth Clark's

  Castaway · 5 January 1974·Roy Plomley

• Marion Stein

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  Marion Stein

  Castaway · 29 December 1973·Roy Plomley

• John Mills

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  John Mills

  John Mills on selling lavatory paper while secretly taking tap dancing lessons

  Castaway · 22 December 1973·Roy Plomley

• Alexander Young

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  Alexander Young

  Alexander Young on receiving a surprise telegram from Stravinsky

  Castaway · 15 December 1973·Roy Plomley

• Gareth Edwards

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  Gareth Edwards

  Gareth Edwards on his unpronounceable Welsh village

  Castaway · 8 December 1973·Roy Plomley

• Marghanita Laski

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  Marghanita Laski

  Castaway · 1 December 1973·Roy Plomley

• Vic Feather

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  Vic Feather

  Castaway · 17 November 1973·Roy Plomley

• Trevor Philpott

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  Trevor Philpott

  Castaway · 10 November 1973·Roy Plomley

• Arnold Ridley

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  Arnold Ridley

  Arnold Ridley on needing more makeup to look young enough

  Castaway · 3 November 1973·Roy Plomley

• Professor Sir Alister Hardy FRS

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  Professor Sir Alister Hardy FRS

  Alister Hardy on his theory that humans evolved from apes in the sea

  Castaway · 27 October 1973·Roy Plomley

• Peter Rogers

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  Peter Rogers

  Peter Rogers on giving audiences the licorice all sorts they want

  Castaway · 20 October 1973·Roy Plomley

• Edward Robey

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  Edward Robey

  How a murder trial at the Old Bailey in 1918 led Edward Robey to the law

  Castaway · 13 October 1973·Roy Plomley

• Mary Peters

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  Mary Peters

  Castaway · 6 October 1973·Roy Plomley

• Ian Hendry

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  Ian Hendry

  Castaway · 29 September 1973·Roy Plomley

• Leontyne Price

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  Leontyne Price

  Leontyne Price on being inspired by Marian Anderson at age nine

  Castaway · 22 September 1973·Roy Plomley

• Bill Sowerbutts

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  Bill Sowerbutts

  Bill Sowerbutts on a plum stone that supposedly produced an apple

  Castaway · 15 September 1973·Roy Plomley

• Joyce Carey

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  Joyce Carey

  Joyce Carey on writing a play under an aunt de plume

  Castaway · 8 September 1973·Roy Plomley

• Earl Wild

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  Earl Wild

  Castaway · 1 September 1973·Roy Plomley

• Bert Foord

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  Bert Foord

  Bert Foord on how a dislike of botany and zoology led him to meteorology

  Castaway · 25 August 1973·Roy Plomley

• June Whitfield

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  June Whitfield

  June Whitfield on her father's repeated advice about shorthand

  Castaway · 18 August 1973·Roy Plomley

• Gervase De Peyer

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  Gervase De Peyer

  Castaway · 11 August 1973·Roy Plomley

• Colin Welland

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  Colin Welland

  How the fear of marriage made Colin Welland quit teaching for the stage

  Castaway · 4 August 1973·Roy Plomley

• Ruskin Spear RA

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  Ruskin Spear RA

  Castaway · 28 July 1973·Roy Plomley

• Colonel Sir Michael Ansell

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  Colonel Sir Michael Ansell

  Castaway · 14 July 1973·Roy Plomley

• Wilfrid Van Wyck

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  Wilfrid Van Wyck

  Castaway · 7 July 1973·Roy Plomley

• Brenda Bruce

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  Brenda Bruce

  Brenda Bruce on her mother holding her knickers at the Coliseum aged three

  Castaway · 30 June 1973·Roy Plomley

• Georgie Fame

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  Georgie Fame

  Castaway · 23 June 1973·Roy Plomley