749 episodes

• Bill Nighy

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  Bill Nighy

  How stealing Shakespeare from a library helped Bill Nighy into drama school

  Castaway · 14 March 2004·Sue Lawley

• Sir Gulam Noon

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  Sir Gulam Noon

  Gulam Noon on promising his mother he'd take care of everything after his father died

  Castaway · 7 March 2004·Sue Lawley

• Judith Kerr

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  Judith Kerr

  Judith Kerr on killing off Mog the Cat as she turned 80

  Castaway · 29 February 2004·Sue Lawley

• John Cale

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  John Cale

  John Cale on his grandmother blaming him for his mother's illness

  Castaway · 22 February 2004·Sue Lawley

• Sacha Distel

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  Sacha Distel

  Sacha Distel on playing the piano as police took his mother

  Castaway · 15 February 2004·Sue Lawley

• Sister Frances Dominica

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  Sister Frances Dominica

  Frances Dominica on the split-second she knew she had to become a nun

  Castaway · 8 February 2004·Sue Lawley

• David Sainsbury

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  David Sainsbury

  Castaway · 1 February 2004·Sue Lawley

• Rt Hon Lord Sainsbury

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  Rt Hon Lord Sainsbury

  David Sainsbury on being asked to choose a Henry Moore drawing as a birthday present as a small boy

  Castaway · 1 February 2004·Sue Lawley

• Paul Dacre

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  Paul Dacre

  Paul Dacre on being pinned against a wall with guns in Belfast

  Castaway · 25 January 2004·Sue Lawley

• Stephen Frears

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  Stephen Frears

  Stephen Frears on sitting in the kitchen with his mother playing cards in the 1940s

  Castaway · 18 January 2004·Sue Lawley

• Jimmy Tarbuck

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  Jimmy Tarbuck

  Jimmy Tarbuck on being brought home by policemen for stealing apples

  Castaway · 11 January 2004·Sue Lawley

• Martha Lane Fox

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  Martha Lane Fox

  Martha Lane Fox on her father's horror if she'd become a banker

  Castaway · 4 January 2004·Sue Lawley

• Paul O'Grady

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  Paul O'Grady

  Paul O'Grady on being the result of a liaison in a bed and breakfast

  Castaway · 28 December 2003·Sue Lawley

• Emmylou Harris

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  Emmylou Harris

  Emmylou Harris on the phone call that told her father was missing in action

  Castaway · 21 December 2003·Sue Lawley

• Nicholas Grimshaw

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  Nicholas Grimshaw

  How seeing an architecture school in Edinburgh set Nicholas Grimshaw's career

  Castaway · 14 December 2003·Sue Lawley

• Pat Barker

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  Pat Barker

  Pat Barker on planning to work in a factory to fund her writing

  Castaway · 7 December 2003·Sue Lawley

• Henry Blofeld

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  Henry Blofeld

  Henry Blofeld on being hit by a bus while cycling

  Castaway · 30 November 2003·Sue Lawley

• Sir Christopher Meyer

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  Sir Christopher Meyer

  Christopher Meyer on leaving behind the Ambassadorial Bentley

  Castaway · 23 November 2003·Sue Lawley

• Jeremy Clarkson

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  Jeremy Clarkson

  How a walk down the village street led Jeremy Clarkson into journalism

  Castaway · 16 November 2003·Sue Lawley

• Christopher Frayling

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  Christopher Frayling

  Christopher Frayling on choosing Singing in the Rain over Wagner's Ring

  Castaway · 2 November 2003·Sue Lawley

• Rt Hon Charles Kennedy MP

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  Rt Hon Charles Kennedy MP

  Charles Kennedy on skipping Gordon Brown's statement on the euro

  Castaway · 26 October 2003·Sue Lawley

• Bill Cullen

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  Bill Cullen

  Bill Cullen on his grandmother marking his forehead with an ash cross

  Castaway · 19 October 2003·Sue Lawley

• Herbert Kretzmer

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  Herbert Kretzmer

  Herbert Kretzmer on causing Cameron Mackintosh to faint with 'She'

  Castaway · 12 October 2003·Sue Lawley

• Nigella Lawson

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  Nigella Lawson

  Nigella Lawson on her mother thinking she was autistic because she never spoke

  Castaway · 5 October 2003·Sue Lawley

• Nick Hornby

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  Nick Hornby

  Nick Hornby on how therapy sparked the idea for Fever Pitch

  Castaway · 28 September 2003·Sue Lawley

• Bryn Terfel

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  Bryn Terfel

  How leaving Wales left Bryn Terfel crying every night for six weeks

  Castaway · 21 September 2003·Sue Lawley

• Barbara Taylor Bradford

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  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Barbara Taylor Bradford on having her first story published at the age of ten

  Castaway · 6 July 2003·Sue Lawley

• Daniel Libeskind

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  Daniel Libeskind

  Daniel Libeskind on the piano his parents hid in a suitcase

  Castaway · 29 June 2003·Sue Lawley

• Bishop John Sentamu

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  Bishop John Sentamu

  John Sentamu on reciting Psalms as guards went for lunch

  Castaway · 22 June 2003·Sue Lawley

• Mark Tully

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  Mark Tully

  How the smell of marigolds and cow dung told Mark Tully he was home

  Castaway · 15 June 2003·Sue Lawley

• Vittorio Radice

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  Vittorio Radice

  Vittorio Radice on playing life for the day in his early twenties

  Castaway · 8 June 2003·Sue Lawley

• Meera Syal

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  Meera Syal

  Meera Syal on being asked 'Why don't you go back where you come from?' as a child

  Castaway · 1 June 2003·Sue Lawley

• Derek Brown

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  Derek Brown

  Derek Brown on his first taste of hot foie gras

  Castaway · 25 May 2003·Sue Lawley

• Franco Zeffirelli

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  Franco Zeffirelli

  Franco Zeffirelli on being born out of wedlock

  Castaway · 18 May 2003·Sue Lawley

• George Fenton

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  George Fenton

  George Fenton on the Daily Telegraph advert that got him a part in Forty Years On

  Castaway · 11 May 2003·Sue Lawley

• Professor A H Halsey

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  Professor A H Halsey

  A H Halsey on learning to be bilingual between home and school

  Castaway · 4 May 2003·Sue Lawley

• Rory Bremner

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  Rory Bremner

  Rory Bremner on his father losing his job while in hospital with cancer

  Castaway · 20 April 2003·Sue Lawley

• Margaret Atwood

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  Margaret Atwood

  Margaret Atwood on writing her first poem while crossing a football field

  Castaway · 13 April 2003·Sue Lawley

• David Gilmour

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  David Gilmour

  David Gilmour on ignoring his parents' advice to have something to fall back on

  Castaway · 6 April 2003·Sue Lawley

• Kristin Scott Thomas

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  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Kristin Scott Thomas on pretending to be dead in a plane crash for a film role

  Castaway · 30 March 2003·Sue Lawley

• Claude-Michel Schonberg

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  Claude-Michel Schonberg

  Claude-Michel Schonberg on knowing he wanted to be an operatic composer at age six

  Castaway · 23 March 2003·Sue Lawley

• Nick Danziger

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  Nick Danziger

  Nick Danziger on running away to Paris aged 13 without a passport

  Castaway · 16 March 2003·Sue Lawley

• Vic Reeves

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  Vic Reeves

  Vic Reeves on getting on stage because he didn't know how to book anyone

  Castaway · 9 March 2003·Sue Lawley

• Gene Pitney

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  Gene Pitney

  How Gene Pitney's mother told him to take back his earnings

  Castaway · 2 March 2003·Sue Lawley

• George Clooney

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  George Clooney

  George Clooney on dressing as a leprechaun with a cigar on his dad's show

  Castaway · 23 February 2003·Sue Lawley

• Cornelia Parker

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  Cornelia Parker

  How a derelict window led Cornelia Parker from painting to sculpture

  Castaway · 16 February 2003·Sue Lawley

• Sir Ian McKellen

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  Sir Ian McKellen

  Ian McKellen on how coming out improved his acting

  Castaway · 9 February 2003·Sue Lawley

• Paul Whitehouse

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  Paul Whitehouse

  How a vicar in an empty church makes Paul Whitehouse run screaming

  Castaway · 2 February 2003·Sue Lawley

• Sir Trevor Nunn

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  Sir Trevor Nunn

  Trevor Nunn on the fragment about Grizabella that inspired the song Memory

  Castaway · 26 January 2003·Sue Lawley

• Professor Baruch Blumberg

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  Professor Baruch Blumberg

  Baruch Blumberg on the three years it took to connect an Australian blood sample to hepatitis B

  Castaway · 19 January 2003·Sue Lawley