1661 episodes

• Geoff Boycott

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  Geoff Boycott

  Geoff Boycott on teaching monkeys to bowl coconuts

  Castaway · 10 April 1971·Roy Plomley

• Peter Daubeny

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  Peter Daubeny

  Castaway · 3 April 1971·Roy Plomley

• Clodagh Rodgers

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  Clodagh Rodgers

  Clodagh Rodgers on her first public performance in knee socks aged twelve

  Castaway · 27 March 1971·Roy Plomley

• Sir Louis Gluckstein

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  Sir Louis Gluckstein

  Louis Gluckstein on how plastic devices defeated the Albert Hall's echo

  Castaway · 20 March 1971·Roy Plomley

• Patrick Cargill

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  Patrick Cargill

  Patrick Cargill on Noël Coward saying 'Bloody marvellous'

  Castaway · 13 March 1971·Roy Plomley

• Ludovic Kennedy

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  Ludovic Kennedy

  Ludovic Kennedy on reading about the Buck Ruxton case from a stepladder as a boy

  Castaway · 6 March 1971·Roy Plomley

• Ravi Shankar

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  Ravi Shankar

  Castaway · 27 February 1971·Roy Plomley

• Wendy Craig

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  Wendy Craig

  Wendy Craig on acting in her pram before ever going to the theatre

  Castaway · 20 February 1971·Roy Plomley

• Harvey Smith

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  Harvey Smith

  Harvey Smith on his first success in a novice competition at Nelson

  Castaway · 13 February 1971·Roy Plomley

• Alan Keith

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  Alan Keith

  Alan Keith on playing truant from school to go to the theatre

  Castaway · 6 February 1971·Roy Plomley

• Laurie Lee

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  Laurie Lee

  Laurie Lee on using his violin as a credit card to survive in Spain

  Castaway · 30 January 1971·Roy Plomley

• Lilian Stiles-Allen

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  Lilian Stiles-Allen

  Castaway · 25 January 1971·Roy Plomley

• Madame Stiles-Allen (Lilian)

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  Madame (Lilian) Stiles-Allen

  How a levitating feeling during a BBC broadcast told Stiles-Allen of Chaliapin's death

  Castaway · 23 January 1971·Roy Plomley

• Robert Bolt

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  Robert Bolt

  Robert Bolt on meeting his former teacher in St Peter's Square

  Castaway · 16 January 1971·Roy Plomley

• James Fitton

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  James Fitton

  James Fitton on ignoring the outline and filling the blank page

  Castaway · 9 January 1971·Roy Plomley

• Quentin Poole

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  Quentin Poole

  Quentin Poole on keeping order in the crocodile

  Castaway · 26 December 1970·Roy Plomley

• Ivan Mauger

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  Ivan Mauger

  Castaway · 19 December 1970·Roy Plomley

• Arthur Lowe

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  Arthur Lowe

  How staging a play in the Sinai Desert launched Arthur Lowe's theatre career

  Castaway · 12 December 1970·Roy Plomley

• Wally Herbert

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  Wally Herbert

  Castaway · 5 December 1970·Roy Plomley

• Diana Rigg

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  Diana Rigg

  Castaway · 28 November 1970·Roy Plomley

• Margaret Powell

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  Margaret Powell

  Castaway · 14 November 1970·Roy Plomley

• Vilem Tausky

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  Vilem Tausky

  Castaway · 7 November 1970·Roy Plomley

• Joan Whittington

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  Joan Whittington

  Castaway · 31 October 1970·Roy Plomley

• John Lill

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  John Lill

  John Lill on jumping in an aircraft to play anything, anywhere in an emergency

  Castaway · 24 October 1970·Roy Plomley

• Sari Barabas

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  Sari Barabas

  Castaway · 17 October 1970·Roy Plomley

• Lynn Redgrave

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  Lynn Redgrave

  Castaway · 10 October 1970·Roy Plomley

• Carrie Tubb

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  Carrie Tubb

  Castaway · 3 October 1970·Roy Plomley

• Harry Carpenter

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  Harry Carpenter

  Harry Carpenter on deciding to avoid his father's fish business

  Castaway · 26 September 1970·Roy Plomley

• Helen Watts

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  Helen Watts

  Helen Watts on the fear of a desert island without music

  Castaway · 12 September 1970·Roy Plomley

• Ellen Pollock

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  Ellen Pollock

  Ellen Pollock on wanting to be Sarah Bernhardt's niece

  Castaway · 5 September 1970·Roy Plomley

• Dick Emery

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  Dick Emery

  Dick Emery on going on tour when he was three weeks old

  Castaway · 29 August 1970·Roy Plomley

• Freya Stark

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  Freya Stark

  Castaway · 22 August 1970·Roy Plomley

• Erich Leinsdorf

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  Erich Leinsdorf

  Erich Leinsdorf on a prima donna's attempt to choose the conductor at the Met

  Castaway · 15 August 1970·Roy Plomley

• Joan Hammond

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  Joan Hammond

  Joan Hammond on her wig getting stuck on a cherry tree branch on stage

  Castaway · 25 July 1970·Roy Plomley

• Barbara Cartland

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  Barbara Cartland

  Castaway · 11 July 1970·Roy Plomley

• Ida Haendel

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  Ida Haendel

  Castaway · 20 June 1970·Roy Plomley

• Barbara Windsor

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  Barbara Windsor

  Barbara Windsor on being told to get rid of her cockney accent

  Castaway · 13 June 1970·Roy Plomley

• Monica Dickens

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  Monica Dickens

  Castaway · 6 June 1970·Roy Plomley

• Keith Michell

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  Keith Michell

  Keith Michell on seeing Olivier's Richard III and deciding to become an actor

  Castaway · 30 May 1970·Roy Plomley

• Andy Stewart

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  Andy Stewart

  Castaway · 23 May 1970·Roy Plomley

• Graham Usher

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  Graham Usher

  Graham Usher on dancing the Bluebird in Sleeping Beauty

  Castaway · 16 May 1970·Roy Plomley

• Carol Channing

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  Carol Channing

  Castaway · 9 May 1970·Roy Plomley

• Gina Cigna

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  Gina Cigna

  Gina Cigna on the bus crash that ended her singing career

  Castaway · 2 May 1970·Roy Plomley

• Sir Gavin De Beer

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  Sir Gavin De Beer

  Castaway · 25 April 1970·Roy Plomley

• James Lockhart

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  James Lockhart

  Castaway · 18 April 1970·Roy Plomley

• Deryck Guyler

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  Deryck Guyler

  Castaway · 11 April 1970·Roy Plomley

• Sheridan Russell

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  Sheridan Russell

  How Sheridan Russell brought humane slaughter to Italian slaughterhouses

  Castaway · 4 April 1970·Roy Plomley

• Nyree Dawn Porter

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  Nyree Dawn Porter

  Nyree Dawn Porter on changing the spelling of her Maori name from Ngaire

  Castaway · 28 March 1970·Roy Plomley

• Judy Hashman

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  Judy Hashman

  Castaway · 21 March 1970·Roy Plomley

• Richard Chamberlain

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  Richard Chamberlain

  How the musical Breakfast at Tiffany's flopped disastrously for Richard Chamberlain

  Castaway · 14 March 1970·Roy Plomley