749 episodes

• General Sir Charles Guthrie

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  General Sir Charles Guthrie

  How a bombing raid seemed frightfully exciting to a young Charles Guthrie

  Castaway · 30 July 2000·Sue Lawley

• Sir Roger Penrose

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  Sir Roger Penrose

  Roger Penrose on the arithmetic trick that amazed him aged ten

  Castaway · 23 July 2000·Sue Lawley

• Rt Hon Michael Portillo MP

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  Rt Hon Michael Portillo MP

  Michael Portillo on feeling relief when he lost his seat

  Castaway · 16 July 2000·Sue Lawley

• Alan Parker

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  Alan Parker

  Alan Parker on seeing his name misspelled as 'Alan Paker' in Paris

  Castaway · 9 July 2000·Sue Lawley

• Peter Nichols

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  Peter Nichols

  Peter Nichols on his brother asking him to disguise the family more

  Castaway · 2 July 2000·Sue Lawley

• Dr. Max Pertuz

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  Dr. Max Pertuz

  Castaway · 25 June 2000·Sue Lawley

• Dr Max Perutz

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  Dr Max Perutz

  Max Perutz on developing his picture with his heart in his throat

  Castaway · 25 June 2000·Sue Lawley

• Donald Sutherland

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  Donald Sutherland

  How being called 'You with the big ears' got Donald Sutherland his first speaking role in The Dirty Dozen

  Castaway · 18 June 2000·Sue Lawley

• Clive James

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  Clive James

  How living in a basement stopped Clive James from jumping

  Castaway · 11 June 2000·Sue Lawley

• Professor Géza Vermes

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  Professor Géza Vermes

  Géza Vermes on becoming a priest because he couldn't go to university

  Castaway · 4 June 2000·Sue Lawley

• John Bird

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  John Bird

  John Bird on performing when no one else would for the money

  Castaway · 28 May 2000·Sue Lawley

• Dame Norma Major

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  Dame Norma Major

  Norma Major on crying during her first six months in Downing Street

  Castaway · 21 May 2000·Sue Lawley

• Kathleen Turner

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  Kathleen Turner

  Kathleen Turner on weeping in her dressing room after a nude scene

  Castaway · 14 May 2000·Sue Lawley

• Sir John Mills

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  Sir John Mills

  John Mills on knowing at age five that he had to be an actor

  Castaway · 7 May 2000·Sue Lawley

• Sir Peter Bonfield

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  Sir Peter Bonfield

  Peter Bonfield on his phobia of being late after discipline from nuns

  Castaway · 30 April 2000·Sue Lawley

• Leonard Slatkin

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  Leonard Slatkin

  Leonard Slatkin on becoming an English major after his father's death

  Castaway · 23 April 2000·Sue Lawley

• Sir Anthony Caro

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  Sir Anthony Caro

  Anthony Caro on being stuck in a garage

  Castaway · 16 April 2000·Sue Lawley

• Claire Tomalin

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  Claire Tomalin

  Claire Tomalin on taking back her husband after his outrageous behaviour

  Castaway · 9 April 2000·Sue Lawley

• Harold Evans

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  Harold Evans

  How Rupert Murdoch asked Harold Evans to resign while he prepared for his father's funeral

  Castaway · 2 April 2000·Sue Lawley

• Adrian Noble

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  Adrian Noble

  Adrian Noble on the funeral hymns that were the sound of his childhood

  Castaway · 26 March 2000·Sue Lawley

• Al Alvarez

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  Al Alvarez

  Al Alvarez on ducking out when Sylvia Plath begged him to stay

  Castaway · 19 March 2000·Sue Lawley

• Colin Montgomerie

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  Colin Montgomerie

  Colin Montgomerie on turning heckling into determination at the Ryder Cup

  Castaway · 12 March 2000·Sue Lawley

• Robert McCrum

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  Robert McCrum

  Robert McCrum on crawling downstairs after his stroke

  Castaway · 5 March 2000·Sue Lawley

• Sheila Hancock

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  Sheila Hancock

  How hypnotism stopped Sheila Hancock vomiting before a National Theatre performance

  Castaway · 27 February 2000·Sue Lawley

• Michael Holroyd

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  Michael Holroyd

  Michael Holroyd on his father threatening to take him to court over his novel

  Castaway · 20 February 2000·Sue Lawley

• Professor Stuart Hall

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  Professor Stuart Hall

  Stuart Hall on watching his father being patronised in colonial Jamaica

  Castaway · 13 February 2000·Sue Lawley

• Simon Callow

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  Simon Callow

  Simon Callow on his character Gareth dying of Scottish dancing

  Castaway · 6 February 2000·Sue Lawley

• Peter Melchett

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  Peter Melchett

  Peter Melchett on feeling nervous during direct action against GM crops

  Castaway · 30 January 2000·Sue Lawley

• Neil Jordan

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  Neil Jordan

  Neil Jordan on hearing voices and seeing visions as a child

  Castaway · 23 January 2000·Sue Lawley

• Ian McEwan

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  Ian McEwan

  Ian McEwan on waving goodbye to his parents from a plane in Libya

  Castaway · 16 January 2000·Sue Lawley

• Dr Jane Goodall

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  Dr Jane Goodall

  Jane Goodall on the moment a chimpanzee squeezed her hand

  Castaway · 9 January 2000·Sue Lawley

• Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber

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  Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Andrew Lloyd Webber on building a toy theatre and getting his first tune published at age eight

  Castaway · 31 December 1999·Sue Lawley

• Michael Crawford

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  Michael Crawford

  Michael Crawford on his first laugh with 'I took eight pairs of socks'

  Castaway · 24 December 1999·Sue Lawley

• Michael Nyman

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  Michael Nyman

  Michael Nyman on abandoning twelve-tone composition after 30 minutes

  Castaway · 19 December 1999·Sue Lawley

• Oz Clarke

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  Oz Clarke

  Oz Clarke on weeping at 13 because he didn't want to grow up

  Castaway · 12 December 1999·Sue Lawley

• Sir Richard Sykes

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  Sir Richard Sykes

  Richard Sykes on his failed dream to become a naturalist

  Castaway · 5 December 1999·Sue Lawley

• Warren Mitchell

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  Warren Mitchell

  How a communist on a troop ship converted Warren Mitchell from a Tory

  Castaway · 28 November 1999·Sue Lawley

• Clarissa Dickson Wright

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  Clarissa Dickson Wright

  Clarissa Dickson Wright on the carrots her father fed her, still with slugs on them

  Castaway · 21 November 1999·Sue Lawley

• William Gibson

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  William Gibson

  William Gibson on the Sony Walkman that inspired cyberspace

  Castaway · 19 November 1999·Sue Lawley

• Willard White

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  Willard White

  Willard White on saying Othello's first line fifty three different ways

  Castaway · 7 November 1999·Sue Lawley

• Ralph Fiennes

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  Ralph Fiennes

  Ralph Fiennes on the disturbing feeling of wearing an SS uniform

  Castaway · 31 October 1999·Sue Lawley

• Rolf Harris

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  Rolf Harris

  Castaway · 29 August 1999·Sue Lawley

• Rita Dove

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  Rita Dove

  Rita Dove on her father being denied the valedictorian address

  Castaway · 22 August 1999·Sue Lawley

• Sir Roger Norrington

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  Sir Roger Norrington

  How the Vienna Philharmonic apologised to Roger Norrington for their vibrato

  Castaway · 15 August 1999·Sue Lawley

• Patricia Routledge

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  Patricia Routledge

  Patricia Routledge on the terror of putting her hand on the door handle before every performance

  Castaway · 8 August 1999·Sue Lawley

• Rick Stein

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  Rick Stein

  Rick Stein on his disco club being closed down by the police

  Castaway · 1 August 1999·Sue Lawley

• Rod Steiger

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  Rod Steiger

  Rod Steiger on fetching his mother from pubs at age eight

  Castaway · 25 July 1999·Sue Lawley

• Martin Pipe

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  Martin Pipe

  Martin Pipe on buying a cheap racehorse with three legs

  Castaway · 18 July 1999·Sue Lawley

• Paddy Moloney

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  Paddy Moloney

  Paddy Moloney on composing on sick bags during long flights

  Castaway · 11 July 1999·Sue Lawley

• Igor Aleksander

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  Igor Aleksander

  Igor Aleksander on being a Yugoslav refugee on the run from the Nazis

  Castaway · 4 July 1999·Sue Lawley