749 episodes

• Lady Margaret Tebbit

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  Lady Margaret Tebbit

  Margaret Tebbit on kicking her husband

  Castaway · 31 December 1995·Sue Lawley

• Petula Clark

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  Petula Clark

  Petula Clark on coming close to a nervous breakdown as a teenager

  Castaway · 24 December 1995·Sue Lawley

• Barbara Dickson

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  Barbara Dickson

  Barbara Dickson on singing into a toothpaste tube in the bathroom

  Castaway · 17 December 1995·Sue Lawley

• Alison Steadman

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  Alison Steadman

  Alison Steadman on her son taking a newspaper to stop her crying over a bad review

  Castaway · 3 December 1995·Sue Lawley

• George Martin

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  George Martin

  George Martin on the morning in June 1962 when the Beatles walked into Abbey Road

  Castaway · 19 November 1995·Sue Lawley

• Umberto Eco

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  Umberto Eco

  How a friend's request for a short story led Umberto Eco to write The Name of the Rose

  Castaway · 12 November 1995·Sue Lawley

• Rt Hon Gillian Shephard MP

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  Rt Hon Gillian Shephard MP

  Gillian Shephard on being stuck in a teaching routine she didn't enjoy

  Castaway · 5 November 1995·Sue Lawley

• Elizabeth Jane Howard

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  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Elizabeth Jane Howard on the faded photograph that made her dread war

  Castaway · 29 October 1995·Sue Lawley

• Don Black

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  Don Black

  Don Black on seeing The Jolson Story 32 times as a child

  Castaway · 22 October 1995·Sue Lawley

• Richard Hoggart

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  Richard Hoggart

  Richard Hoggart on putting his cap in his pocket after schoolboys threw it off daily

  Castaway · 15 October 1995·Sue Lawley

• Alan Yentob

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  Alan Yentob

  Alan Yentob on his mother's objection to the term 'immigrant family'

  Castaway · 8 October 1995·Sue Lawley

• Jenny Pitman

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  Jenny Pitman

  Jenny Pitman on slapping a jockey for cutting up her horse

  Castaway · 1 October 1995·Sue Lawley

• Maurice Saatchi

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  Maurice Saatchi

  Maurice Saatchi on being carried off the field after a cricket ball ended his sporting career

  Castaway · 24 September 1995·Sue Lawley

• Max Nicholson

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  Max Nicholson

  Max Nicholson on the visit to the Natural History Museum's bird gallery that set him on his life's work

  Castaway · 17 September 1995·Sue Lawley

• John Updike

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  John Updike

  John Updike on falling in love with the New Yorker as a child

  Castaway · 10 September 1995·Sue Lawley

• Wendy Richard

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  Wendy Richard

  Wendy Richard on being doorstepped while trying to walk her dog

  Castaway · 9 July 1995·Sue Lawley

• Duke Of Westminster

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  Duke Of Westminster

  How learning he would inherit the family estate made the Duke of Westminster want to run for the door

  Castaway · 2 July 1995·Sue Lawley

• Jasper Conran

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  Jasper Conran

  How Jasper Conran's rent suddenly multiplied six times overnight

  Castaway · 25 June 1995·Sue Lawley

• Sir Magdi Yacoub

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  Sir Magdi Yacoub

  Magdi Yacoub on his controversial baboon experiment

  Castaway · 18 June 1995·Sue Lawley

• John Lee Hooker

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  John Lee Hooker

  John Lee Hooker on leaving home with two dollars and a guitar

  Castaway · 11 June 1995·Sue Lawley

• Brian Blessed

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  Brian Blessed

  Brian Blessed on refusing oxygen on Everest to feel the mountain

  Castaway · 4 June 1995·Sue Lawley

• Marianne Faithfull

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  Marianne Faithfull

  Marianne Faithfull on the Redlands drug bust she believes was an MI5 set-up

  Castaway · 28 May 1995·Sue Lawley

• Sir Bernard Ingham

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  Sir Bernard Ingham

  How Bernard Ingham blamed 'knifing Tories' for Thatcher's fall

  Castaway · 21 May 1995·Sue Lawley

• Neil Simon

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  Neil Simon

  Neil Simon on his brother predicting at age 15 he’d be America’s best comedy writer

  Castaway · 14 May 1995·Sue Lawley

• Dr George Carey

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  Dr George Carey

  George Carey on finding his friend missing after a bombing raid

  Castaway · 7 May 1995·Sue Lawley

• Pete Waterman

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  Pete Waterman

  How an astrologer led Pete Waterman to sleep in a vocal booth

  Castaway · 30 April 1995·Sue Lawley

• George Lloyd

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  George Lloyd

  George Lloyd on surviving a shipwreck that drowned his comrades in thick black oil

  Castaway · 23 April 1995·Sue Lawley

• Hugh Grant

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  Hugh Grant

  Hugh Grant on not seeing a profit from Four Weddings' $300 million box office

  Castaway · 16 April 1995·Sue Lawley

• James Bowman

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  James Bowman

  James Bowman on his voice packing up in the studio

  Castaway · 9 April 1995·Sue Lawley

• Nina Bawden

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  Nina Bawden

  Nina Bawden on evacuating with her best friend Jean at 14

  Castaway · 2 April 1995·Sue Lawley

• Felix Aprahamian

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  Felix Aprahamian

  Felix Aprahamian on the piano blunder that taught him critical wisdom

  Castaway · 19 March 1995·Sue Lawley

• Nigel Nicolson

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  Nigel Nicolson

  Nigel Nicolson on Virginia Woolf asking about his school lies

  Castaway · 12 March 1995·Sue Lawley

• Professor Eric Hobsbawm

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  Professor Eric Hobsbawm

  Eric Hobsbawm on a cause that has plainly failed

  Castaway · 5 March 1995·Sue Lawley

• Christopher Lee

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  Christopher Lee

  Christopher Lee on being told he was playing all the parts in the play

  Castaway · 26 February 1995·Sue Lawley

• Jimmy Knapp

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  Jimmy Knapp

  Jimmy Knapp on having to put his coat on to use the toilet at night as a boy

  Castaway · 19 February 1995·Sue Lawley

• Sir Adrian Cadbury

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  Sir Adrian Cadbury

  Adrian Cadbury on losing the Olympic rowing final by twelve feet

  Castaway · 29 January 1995·Sue Lawley

• Dr Richard Dawkins

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  Dr Richard Dawkins

  Richard Dawkins on comparing God to Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy

  Castaway · 22 January 1995·Sue Lawley

• Phil Redmond

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  Phil Redmond

  Phil Redmond on vetoing a glue sniffing storyline for Grange Hill

  Castaway · 15 January 1995·Sue Lawley

• Patricia Hodge

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  Patricia Hodge

  Patricia Hodge on seeing Where the Rainbow Ends at age ten

  Castaway · 8 January 1995·Sue Lawley

• Alan Clark

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  Alan Clark

  How Alan Clark nearly became Defence Secretary until Saddam invaded Kuwait

  Castaway · 1 January 1995·Sue Lawley

• David Jason OBE

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  David Jason OBE

  David Jason on a lonely Christmas dinner in a panto boarding house

  Castaway · 25 December 1994·Sue Lawley

• Penelope Hobhouse

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  Penelope Hobhouse

  Penelope Hobhouse on writing her first book after buying a typewriter at Woolworths

  Castaway · 18 December 1994·Sue Lawley

• Margaret Foster

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  Margaret Foster

  Castaway · 4 December 1994·Sue Lawley

• Margaret Forster

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  Margaret Forster

  Margaret Forster on her hit novel being an albatross round her neck

  Castaway · 4 December 1994·Sue Lawley

• Sir Howard Hodgkin

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  Sir Howard Hodgkin

  Howard Hodgkin on painting on the back of an RAF mess blackboard

  Castaway · 27 November 1994·Sue Lawley

• Glenys Kinnock

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  Glenys Kinnock

  Glenys Kinnock on her father's Suez Canal lesson in 1956

  Castaway · 20 November 1994·Sue Lawley

• Berthold Goldschmidt

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  Berthold Goldschmidt

  Berthold Goldschmidt on being summoned by the Gestapo

  Castaway · 13 November 1994·Sue Lawley

• Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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  Archbishop Desmond Tutu

  Desmond Tutu on black children scavenging sandwiches from white school waste bins

  Castaway · 6 November 1994·Sue Lawley

• Kathleen Hale

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  Kathleen Hale

  Kathleen Hale on having her sketchbook taken away as a punishment

  Castaway · 30 October 1994·Sue Lawley

• Lynda La Plante

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  Lynda La Plante

  Lynda La Plante on the moment she knew she'd never act again

  Castaway · 23 October 1994·Sue Lawley