1661 episodes

• Billy Connolly

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  Billy Connolly

  Billy Connolly on buying a banjo for two pounds in Glasgow

  Castaway · 30 July 1977·Roy Plomley

• Arthur C Clarke

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  Arthur C Clarke

  Arthur C Clarke on building his own crystal set to listen to music as a youth

  Castaway · 23 July 1977·Roy Plomley

• Shirley Conran

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  Shirley Conran

  Shirley Conran on walking down Tottenham Court Road with her morale shattered

  Castaway · 16 July 1977·Roy Plomley

• Clare Francis

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  Clare Francis

  Clare Francis on sleeping only one hour at a time to watch for ships

  Castaway · 9 July 1977·Roy Plomley

• Miss Read

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  Miss Read

  Miss Read on her father’s horror at her Fleet Street plans

  Castaway · 2 July 1977·Roy Plomley

• Jack Parnell

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  Jack Parnell

  Jack Parnell on the night Luciano Pavarotti stood in wearing jodhpurs

  Castaway · 25 June 1977·Roy Plomley

• Derek Randall

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  Derek Randall

  Derek Randall on the fishy taste of strawberry jam

  Castaway · 18 June 1977·Roy Plomley

• Mirella Freni

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  Mirella Freni

  Mirella Freni on being 'brother in milk' with Luciano Pavarotti

  Castaway · 11 June 1977·Roy Plomley

• Sir Oliver Millar

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  Sir Oliver Millar

  Oliver Millar on insisting the Bible must be the King James's version

  Castaway · 4 June 1977·Roy Plomley

• Marisa Robles

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  Marisa Robles

  Marisa Robles on winning a radio competition at nine only to have her bicycle prize taken away

  Castaway · 28 May 1977·Roy Plomley

• P L Travers

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  P L Travers

  P L Travers on learning to live with the Disney Mary Poppins

  Castaway · 21 May 1977·Roy Plomley

• Peggy Lee

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  Peggy Lee

  How Peggy Lee auditioned with one dime to her name

  Castaway · 14 May 1977·Roy Plomley

• Lord Home of The Hirsel

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  Lord Home of The Hirsel

  Alec Douglas-Home on finding Hitler the most boarish man

  Castaway · 7 May 1977·Roy Plomley

• David Niven

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  David Niven

  How being rude to a general helped David Niven leave the army

  Castaway · 30 April 1977·Roy Plomley

• Magnus Magnusson

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  Magnus Magnusson

  Magnus Magnusson on discovering he was short-sighted during his first TV link

  Castaway · 23 April 1977·Roy Plomley

• Yehudi Menuhin

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  Yehudi Menuhin

  Yehudi Menuhin on his struggle to produce a vibrato

  Castaway · 16 April 1977·Roy Plomley

• Rod Hull

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  Rod Hull

  Rod Hull on the emu egg that grew bigger every day

  Castaway · 9 April 1977·Roy Plomley

• Brigadier Peter Young

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  Brigadier Peter Young

  Peter Young on the telegram his men sent to Hitler

  Castaway · 2 April 1977·Roy Plomley

• Mary Martin

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  Mary Martin

  Mary Martin on the ghastly sound of her childhood violin

  Castaway · 26 March 1977·Roy Plomley

• Jacqueline Du Pre

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  Jacqueline Du Pre

  Jacqueline Du Pre on nearly drowning out the music with her tears

  Castaway · 19 March 1977·Roy Plomley

• James Bolam

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  James Bolam

  James Bolam on having his on-screen family murdered while being assessed for a comedy part

  Castaway · 12 March 1977·Roy Plomley

• Oliver Ford

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  Oliver Ford

  Oliver Ford on finding himself in the middle of a minefield

  Castaway · 5 March 1977·Roy Plomley

• Merle Park

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  Merle Park

  How coffee and cakes helped Merle Park afford her fare to Britain

  Castaway · 26 February 1977·Roy Plomley

• Egon Ronay

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  Egon Ronay

  Egon Ronay on how a friend drinking a Russian commander under the table helped him leave Budapest

  Castaway · 19 February 1977·Roy Plomley

• John Curry

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  John Curry

  John Curry on winning the Hop, Skip and a Jump Competition

  Castaway · 12 February 1977·Roy Plomley

• Barry Tuckwell

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  Barry Tuckwell

  How Barry Tuckwell joined the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as third horn at 15

  Castaway · 5 February 1977·Roy Plomley

• Roy Dotrice

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  Roy Dotrice

  Roy Dotrice on playing female roles in a POW camp

  Castaway · 29 January 1977·Roy Plomley

• Michael Holroyd

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  Michael Holroyd

  Michael Holroyd on arguing so persuasively his father told him to profit from it

  Castaway · 22 January 1977·Roy Plomley

• James Blades

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  James Blades

  James Blades on singing Ding boom boom boom to join the cathedral choir

  Castaway · 15 January 1977·Roy Plomley

• Robert Dougall

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  Robert Dougall

  Robert Dougall on watching wax models writhe in a fire during the Blitz

  Castaway · 8 January 1977·Roy Plomley

• Kenneth McKellar

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  Kenneth McKellar

  Kenneth McKellar on leaving forestry for a singing scholarship at the Royal College of Music

  Castaway · 1 January 1977·Roy Plomley

• Charlie Cairoli

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  Charlie Cairoli

  Charlie Cairoli on his father’s verdict after his first performance

  Castaway · 25 December 1976·Roy Plomley

• Sir Denys Lasdun

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  Sir Denys Lasdun

  Denys Lasdun on his horse being confiscated by the military police

  Castaway · 18 December 1976·Roy Plomley

• Gemma Jones

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  Gemma Jones

  Gemma Jones on being a queen's guide

  Castaway · 11 December 1976·Roy Plomley

• Igor Kipnis

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  Igor Kipnis

  Igor Kipnis on falling for the harpsichord after hearing Landowska

  Castaway · 4 December 1976·Roy Plomley

• Eric Idle

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  Eric Idle

  Eric Idle on being banned in Rutland

  Castaway · 27 November 1976·Roy Plomley

• Anna Moffo

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  Anna Moffo

  How Anna Moffo went from Little Miss Muffet to overnight star

  Castaway · 20 November 1976·Roy Plomley

• Christopher Milne

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  Christopher Milne

  Christopher Milne on the weekly moment his singing voice dominated in chapel

  Castaway · 13 November 1976·Roy Plomley

• Anthony Quayle

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  Anthony Quayle

  Anthony Quayle on his first taste of money from a musical sketch with Naylor Grimson

  Castaway · 6 November 1976·Roy Plomley

• Lt-Colonel John Blashford-Snell

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  Lt-Colonel John Blashford-Snell

  John Blashford-Snell on forming a private army at 14 to defend Herefordshire

  Castaway · 30 October 1976·Roy Plomley

• Norman Bailey

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  Norman Bailey

  How Norman Bailey would use a pocket calculator to count grains of sand

  Castaway · 23 October 1976·Roy Plomley

• Anthony Powell

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  Anthony Powell

  Anthony Powell on cleaning ink pots in a publisher's office where convicts were better treated

  Castaway · 16 October 1976·Roy Plomley

• Alan Bates

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  Alan Bates

  Alan Bates on the poor opening notices for Look Back in Anger

  Castaway · 9 October 1976·Roy Plomley

• Frank Muir

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  Frank Muir

  How claiming to organise concert parties got Frank Muir out of RAF guard duty

  Castaway · 2 October 1976·Roy Plomley

• Peter Quennell

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  Peter Quennell

  Peter Quennell on being sacked from the fire service for smoking on a fire

  Castaway · 25 September 1976·Roy Plomley

• David Wilkie

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  David Wilkie

  David Wilkie on kicking air at the start and losing the 100m final

  Castaway · 18 September 1976·Roy Plomley

• Michael Bond

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  Michael Bond

  Michael Bond on missing a bus and buying the bear that became Paddington

  Castaway · 11 September 1976·Roy Plomley

• George Cole

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  George Cole

  How shoveling coal made a man of George Cole

  Castaway · 4 September 1976·Roy Plomley

• Tolchard Evans

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  Tolchard Evans

  How a publisher warned Tolchard Evans not to buy sports cars and live with women

  Castaway · 28 August 1976·Roy Plomley

• Penelope Keith

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  Penelope Keith

  Penelope Keith on the sewing machine needle that ended her piano playing

  Castaway · 21 August 1976·Roy Plomley