1661 episodes

• Basil Dean

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  Basil Dean

  Castaway · 16 June 1973·Roy Plomley

• Joe Bugner

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  Joe Bugner

  Joe Bugner on carrying a machine gun as a six-year-old escaping Hungary

  Castaway · 9 June 1973·Roy Plomley

• Baroness Summerskill

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  Baroness Summerskill

  Castaway · 2 June 1973·Roy Plomley

• Joseph Cooper

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  Joseph Cooper

  How keeping a dummy keyboard helped Joseph Cooper prepare for rescue

  Castaway · 19 May 1973·Roy Plomley

• John Huston

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  John Huston

  How John Huston sang cowboy songs and slept on London's Embankment

  Castaway · 12 May 1973·Roy Plomley

• Norman Thelwell

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  Norman Thelwell

  How a corporal in the Welsh Guards broke Norman Thelwell's brushes and pencils

  Castaway · 5 May 1973·Roy Plomley

• Edith Coates

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  Edith Coates

  Edith Coates on the time a cat wandered on stage during Trovatore

  Castaway · 28 April 1973·Roy Plomley

• Chris Bonington

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  Chris Bonington

  Chris Bonington on living on potatoes for three months below the Eiger

  Castaway · 21 April 1973·Roy Plomley

• Harry Loman

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  Harry Loman

  Harry Loman on telling Fred Karno that Charlie Chaplin was a good boy

  Castaway · 14 April 1973·Roy Plomley

• Florence De Jong

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  Florence De Jong

  Florence De Jong on playing piano at a cinema after school

  Castaway · 7 April 1973·Roy Plomley

• Christopher Serpell

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  Christopher Serpell

  Castaway · 31 March 1973·Roy Plomley

• Cathleen Nesbitt

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  Cathleen Nesbitt

  Castaway · 24 March 1973·Roy Plomley

• George Melly

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  George Melly

  Castaway · 17 March 1973·Roy Plomley

• Dame Veronica Wedgwood OM

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  Dame Veronica Wedgwood OM

  Castaway · 10 March 1973·Roy Plomley

• Alexander Gibson

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  Alexander Gibson

  Alexander Gibson on being forced to join the conducting class

  Castaway · 3 March 1973·Roy Plomley

• Leslie Thomas

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  Leslie Thomas

  Leslie Thomas on his teacher mishearing ‘writer’ as ‘waiter’

  Castaway · 24 February 1973·Roy Plomley

• John Le Mesurier

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  John Le Mesurier

  John Le Mesurier on worrying when he's got nothing to worry about

  Castaway · 17 February 1973·Roy Plomley

• Rita Hunter

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  Rita Hunter

  Rita Hunter on singing the Dutchman at Covent Garden with her hair in curlers

  Castaway · 10 February 1973·Roy Plomley

• Anthony Smith

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  Anthony Smith

  Anthony Smith on his book Blind White Fish in Persia

  Castaway · 3 February 1973·Roy Plomley

• Robert Nesbitt

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  Robert Nesbitt

  Castaway · 27 January 1973·Roy Plomley

• Denise Robins

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  Denise Robins

  Denise Robins on typing her mother's manuscripts as a child

  Castaway · 20 January 1973·Roy Plomley

• Mike Yarwood

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  Mike Yarwood

  Mike Yarwood on being told by his headmaster he couldn't be a journalist

  Castaway · 13 January 1973·Roy Plomley

• Tony Britton

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  Tony Britton

  Tony Britton on being saved from the sack by a part in The Firstborn

  Castaway · 6 January 1973·Roy Plomley

• Noel Rawsthorne

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  Noel Rawsthorne

  Noel Rawsthorne on the organ that had no ignition key in Russia

  Castaway · 30 December 1972·Roy Plomley

• Johnny Speight

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  Johnny Speight

  Castaway · 9 December 1972·Roy Plomley

• Adelaide Hall

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  Adelaide Hall

  Adelaide Hall on the countermelody that made her the voice of 'I Can't Give You Anything But Love'

  Castaway · 2 December 1972·Roy Plomley

• Group Captain Peter Townsend

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  Group Captain Peter Townsend

  Peter Townsend on taking seven days to cover 24 miles in the Burmese jungle

  Castaway · 25 November 1972·Roy Plomley

• Beverly Sills

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  Beverly Sills

  Beverly Sills on cutting up a costume to get it made silver

  Castaway · 18 November 1972·Roy Plomley

• Dennis Wheatley

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  Dennis Wheatley

  Castaway · 4 November 1972·Roy Plomley

• Imogen Holst

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  Imogen Holst

  Imogen Holst on dancing before she could walk to her father's music

  Castaway · 28 October 1972·Roy Plomley

• Jackie Charlton

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  Jackie Charlton

  Jackie Charlton on his six months working down the mine

  Castaway · 21 October 1972·Roy Plomley

• Christopher Gable

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  Christopher Gable

  Christopher Gable on the 2 out of 12 odds of becoming a soloist

  Castaway · 14 October 1972·Roy Plomley

• Michael Aspel

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  Michael Aspel

  Michael Aspel on being the last child evacuated from the town hall

  Castaway · 7 October 1972·Roy Plomley

• John Reed

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  John Reed

  John Reed on learning the Nightmare song for his first audition

  Castaway · 23 September 1972·Roy Plomley

• Margaret Lockwood

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  Margaret Lockwood

  Margaret Lockwood on imitating Charlie Chaplin all the way home

  Castaway · 16 September 1972·Roy Plomley

• Anthony Lawrence

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  Anthony Lawrence

  Anthony Lawrence on being told the only way to be a journalist is to be one

  Castaway · 9 September 1972·Roy Plomley

• Jimmy Tarbuck

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  Jimmy Tarbuck

  Jimmy Tarbuck on being at school with George Harrison and John Lennon

  Castaway · 26 August 1972·Roy Plomley

• Professor Barry Cunliffe

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  Professor Barry Cunliffe

  Barry Cunliffe on how a young excavator’s neat cut uncovered a Roman inscription in Bath

  Castaway · 19 August 1972·Roy Plomley

• Stephane Grappelli

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  Stephane Grappelli

  How Stephane Grappelli taught Django Reinhardt to sign his name

  Castaway · 12 August 1972·Roy Plomley

• Edward Ardizzone

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  Edward Ardizzone

  Edward Ardizzone on drawing Winston Churchill rubbing his tummy

  Castaway · 5 August 1972·Roy Plomley

• Sir Arthur Bliss

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  Sir Arthur Bliss

  Arthur Bliss on calling his wife to hammer a nail

  Castaway · 29 July 1972·Roy Plomley

• Marcel Marceau

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  Marcel Marceau

  Marcel Marceau on why mime is more attached to the floor than dance

  Castaway · 22 July 1972·Roy Plomley

• Joe Henderson

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  Joe Henderson

  Joe Henderson on being paid with a tin of toffees for his first band gig

  Castaway · 15 July 1972·Roy Plomley

• Henry Cecil

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  Henry Cecil

  How a bottle of aspirin would be Henry Cecil's means of escape

  Castaway · 8 July 1972·Roy Plomley

• Charles Groves

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  Charles Groves

  Charles Groves on seeing Toscanini cry while conducting

  Castaway · 1 July 1972·Roy Plomley

• Jean Plaidy

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  Jean Plaidy

  How Hampton Court inspired Jean Plaidy to become a historical novelist

  Castaway · 24 June 1972·Roy Plomley

• Judi Dench

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  Judi Dench

  Judi Dench on thinking her Cabaret offer was a joke

  Castaway · 17 June 1972·Roy Plomley

• Professor Francis Camps

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  Professor Francis Camps

  Francis Camps on examining the shirt Charles I wore when he was beheaded

  Castaway · 10 June 1972·Roy Plomley

• Alec Robertson

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  Alec Robertson

  Alec Robertson on his mother's singing lesson that ended with 'never come back'

  Castaway · 3 June 1972·Roy Plomley

• Tony Bennett

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  Tony Bennett

  Tony Bennett on his first big-time job with Pearl Bailey

  Castaway · 27 May 1972·Roy Plomley