749 episodes

• Antony Gormley

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  Antony Gormley

  Antony Gormley on his wife giving him 'birth' through plaster body casts

  Castaway · 10 May 1998·Sue Lawley

• Susan Blackmore

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  Susan Blackmore

  Susan Blackmore on her out-of-body experience at Oxford

  Castaway · 3 May 1998·Sue Lawley

• Sir Ernest Hall

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  Sir Ernest Hall

  Ernest Hall on being mesmerised by a wind-up gramophone aged eight

  Castaway · 26 April 1998·Sue Lawley

• Sir Terry Frost

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  Sir Terry Frost

  Terry Frost on trading caricatures for goods in a POW camp

  Castaway · 19 April 1998·Sue Lawley

• Judi Dench

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  Judi Dench

  How seeing King Lear at Stratford led Judi Dench to become an actor

  Castaway · 12 April 1998·Sue Lawley

• Gavin Bryars

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  Gavin Bryars

  Gavin Bryars on finding a tramp's recording that became Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

  Castaway · 5 April 1998·Sue Lawley

• Alice Thomas Ellis

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  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Alice Thomas Ellis on adopting a pen name to roar anonymously

  Castaway · 29 March 1998·Sue Lawley

• Andrew Motion

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  Andrew Motion

  Andrew Motion on the Hardy poem that made the hair on his neck stand up

  Castaway · 22 March 1998·Sue Lawley

• Ian Stewart

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  Ian Stewart

  How a broken collarbone saved Ian Stewart for mathematics

  Castaway · 15 March 1998·Sue Lawley

• Sir Anthony Dowell

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  Sir Anthony Dowell

  Anthony Dowell on having his knees inspected by Dame Ninette de Valois

  Castaway · 8 March 1998·Sue Lawley

• Archie Norman MP

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  Archie Norman MP

  Archie Norman on creating a standing room to prevent dozing during meetings

  Castaway · 1 March 1998·Sue Lawley

• David Pountney

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  David Pountney

  David Pountney on hearing Fidelio from a barn crossbeam at age five

  Castaway · 22 February 1998·Sue Lawley

• Richard Noble

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  Richard Noble

  Richard Noble on seeing John Cobb's Crusader as a boy

  Castaway · 15 February 1998·Sue Lawley

• Colin Dexter

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  Colin Dexter

  Colin Dexter on Lord Harding of Penshurst offering to publish his first Morse novel within 24 hours

  Castaway · 1 February 1998·Sue Lawley

• Helena Kennedy QC

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  Helena Kennedy QC

  Helena Kennedy on having her mini skirt questioned at Gray's Inn

  Castaway · 25 January 1998·Sue Lawley

• John Tomlinson

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  John Tomlinson

  John Tomlinson on suggesting James Morris for the role of Wotan

  Castaway · 18 January 1998·Sue Lawley

• Paul Hogarth

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  Paul Hogarth

  Paul Hogarth on his father standing outside his exhibition

  Castaway · 11 January 1998·Sue Lawley

• Professor Heinz Wolff

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  Professor Heinz Wolff

  Heinz Wolff on making Richard Dimbleby squeal with a swallowed radio transmitter

  Castaway · 4 January 1998·Sue Lawley

• Glenda Jackson MP

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  Glenda Jackson MP

  Glenda Jackson on polishing her Oscar to find base metal underneath

  Castaway · 28 December 1997·Sue Lawley

• Sir Harry Secombe

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  Sir Harry Secombe

  How taking off his glasses helped Harry Secombe overcome stage fright

  Castaway · 21 December 1997·Sue Lawley

• Chris Haskins

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  Chris Haskins

  Chris Haskins on getting paid £5 to write about the Aldermaston march

  Castaway · 14 December 1997·Sue Lawley

• Paula Rego

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  Paula Rego

  Paula Rego on being alarmed by the smell of naked flesh in the life room

  Castaway · 7 December 1997·Sue Lawley

• Loyd Grossman

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  Loyd Grossman

  How being mistaken for Bevis Hillier got Loyd Grossman on TV

  Castaway · 30 November 1997·Sue Lawley

• Thelma Holt

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  Thelma Holt

  Thelma Holt on rescuing the Roundhouse with 40 rock concerts

  Castaway · 23 November 1997·Sue Lawley

• Anthony Minghella

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  Anthony Minghella

  Anthony Minghella on sending actors home from Italy

  Castaway · 9 November 1997·Sue Lawley

• John Julius Norwich

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  John Julius Norwich

  John Julius Norwich on leaving Venice with a haunting sense of regret

  Castaway · 2 November 1997·Sue Lawley

• Richard Mabey

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  Richard Mabey

  How a bluebell wood made Richard Mabey feel like wading underwater

  Castaway · 26 October 1997·Sue Lawley

• Richard Rodney Bennett

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  Richard Rodney Bennett

  How Pierre Boulez took Richard Rodney Bennett apart

  Castaway · 19 October 1997·Sue Lawley

• Rose Tremain

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  Rose Tremain

  Rose Tremain on filling a vacuum created by her father's leaving home

  Castaway · 12 October 1997·Sue Lawley

• Jools Holland

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  Jools Holland

  Jools Holland on playing piano in pubs for £7.50 a night

  Castaway · 5 October 1997·Sue Lawley

• Peter O'Sullevan

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  Peter O'Sullevan

  How the Blitz cured Peter O'Sullevan's acne-induced loneliness

  Castaway · 28 September 1997·Sue Lawley

• Mike Leigh OBE

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  Mike Leigh OBE

  How a pulled TV play gave Mike Leigh his biggest hit

  Castaway · 21 September 1997·Sue Lawley

• Ursula Owen

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  Ursula Owen

  Ursula Owen on weeping outside her parents' house

  Castaway · 14 September 1997·Sue Lawley

• Sir Frank Kermode

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  Sir Frank Kermode

  Frank Kermode on dealing with the madness of captains during the war

  Castaway · 7 September 1997·Sue Lawley

• Cleo Laine

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  Cleo Laine

  Cleo Laine on the New Year's Eve kiss with Johnny Dankworth

  Castaway · 31 August 1997·Sue Lawley

• Iain Banks

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  Iain Banks

  Iain Banks on building bombs from sodium chlorate and sugar

  Castaway · 24 August 1997·Sue Lawley

• Eric Sykes

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  Eric Sykes

  Eric Sykes on crying from homesickness on his first night in the RAF

  Castaway · 22 June 1997·Sue Lawley

• Christina Noble

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  Christina Noble

  Christina Noble on a vivid dream of children running through smoke

  Castaway · 15 June 1997·Sue Lawley

• Benjamin Zephaniah

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  Benjamin Zephaniah

  Benjamin Zephaniah on writing his first book when he could hardly read or write

  Castaway · 8 June 1997·Sue Lawley

• Joanna MacGregor

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  Joanna MacGregor

  Joanna MacGregor on the shock of being told what to think when she first went to school

  Castaway · 1 June 1997·Sue Lawley

• Sian Phillips

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  Sian Phillips

  Sian Phillips on seeing her first pantomime with her grandmother

  Castaway · 25 May 1997·Sue Lawley

• Harry Enfield

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  Harry Enfield

  Harry Enfield on bitterly resenting his father for picking him up from parties

  Castaway · 18 May 1997·Sue Lawley

• David Wynne

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  David Wynne

  David Wynne on sending a cheeky note to Jacob Epstein

  Castaway · 11 May 1997·Sue Lawley

• Sir Martin Rees

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  Sir Martin Rees

  Martin Rees on how being bad at Greek and Latin steered him towards astronomy

  Castaway · 4 May 1997·Sue Lawley

• Andy Hamilton

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  Andy Hamilton

  How a backstage chat after an Edinburgh show won Andy Hamilton his BBC break

  Castaway · 27 April 1997·Sue Lawley

• Saeed Jaffrey

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  Saeed Jaffrey

  Saeed Jaffrey on his mother's letter after his Broadway debut

  Castaway · 20 April 1997·Sue Lawley

• Virginia Ironside

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  Virginia Ironside

  Virginia Ironside on regularly waking up screaming and calling the Samaritans

  Castaway · 30 March 1997·Sue Lawley

• Peter Blake

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  Peter Blake

  Peter Blake on being paid £200 for the Sgt. Pepper album cover

  Castaway · 23 March 1997·Sue Lawley

• Nina Campbell

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  Nina Campbell

  Nina Campbell on not being able to make a pair of curtains

  Castaway · 16 March 1997·Sue Lawley

• Redmond O'Hanlon

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  Redmond O'Hanlon

  Redmond O'Hanlon on losing his fetish in a Rotterdam restaurant

  Castaway · 9 March 1997·Sue Lawley