749 episodes

• Dr Susan Greenfield

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  Dr Susan Greenfield

  Susan Greenfield on her mother's question about seeing the colour red

  Castaway · 2 March 1997·Sue Lawley

• Nico Ladenis

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  Nico Ladenis

  Nico Ladenis on his tearful reaction to being awarded three Michelin stars

  Castaway · 23 February 1997·Sue Lawley

• Mary Benson

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  Mary Benson

  Mary Benson on pretending to write notes about Saul Bellow's Herzog while under house arrest

  Castaway · 16 February 1997·Sue Lawley

• Terry Pratchett

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  Terry Pratchett

  Terry Pratchett on meeting Arthur C. Clarke in the gents aged 13

  Castaway · 9 February 1997·Sue Lawley

• Gene Wilder

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  Gene Wilder

  Gene Wilder on making his mother laugh after her heart attack

  Castaway · 2 February 1997·Sue Lawley

• Irene Thomas

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  Irene Thomas

  Irene Thomas on being dismissed as a 'jamped up chorus girl' by Round Britain Quiz

  Castaway · 26 January 1997·Sue Lawley

• John Cleese

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  John Cleese

  John Cleese on fleeing the Footlights desk in confusion

  Castaway · 5 January 1997·Sue Lawley

• Martin Amis

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  Martin Amis

  Martin Amis on attending more than a dozen schools as a child

  Castaway · 29 December 1996·Sue Lawley

• Jennifer Saunders

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  Jennifer Saunders

  Jennifer Saunders on initially repelling Dawn French

  Castaway · 22 December 1996·Sue Lawley

• Ian Dury

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  Ian Dury

  Ian Dury on being accused of faking his disability at the Nashville

  Castaway · 15 December 1996·Sue Lawley

• Robert Winston

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  Robert Winston

  Robert Winston on being a real Luddite when IVF first began

  Castaway · 8 December 1996·Sue Lawley

• Bruce Forsyth

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  Bruce Forsyth

  How driving round the block three times helped Bruce Forsyth enter the London Palladium

  Castaway · 1 December 1996·Sue Lawley

• Rt Hon Tony Blair MP

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  Rt Hon Tony Blair MP

  Tony Blair on the morning his father had a stroke

  Castaway · 24 November 1996·Sue Lawley

• Tessa Sanderson

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  Tessa Sanderson

  Tessa Sanderson on the shock of seeing snow for the first time after arriving from Jamaica

  Castaway · 17 November 1996·Sue Lawley

• Sir Laurens Van Der Post

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  Sir Laurens Van Der Post

  Laurens Van Der Post on resolving to apologize to the Bushmen at age eight

  Castaway · 10 November 1996·Sue Lawley

• Chris Patten

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  Chris Patten

  Chris Patten on predicting to John Major that he would lose his seat in Bath

  Castaway · 3 November 1996·Sue Lawley

• Jancis Robinson

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  Jancis Robinson

  How a 1959 Burgundy took Jancis Robinson to another place

  Castaway · 27 October 1996·Sue Lawley

• Jackie Charlton

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  Jackie Charlton

  Jackie Charlton on fighting for the warmest spot in his childhood bed

  Castaway · 20 October 1996·Sue Lawley

• Rumer Godden

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  Rumer Godden

  How a father's remark about her face broke Rumer Godden's heart

  Castaway · 13 October 1996·Sue Lawley

• Lewis Wolpert

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  Lewis Wolpert

  Lewis Wolpert on his therapist talking him through a committee meeting

  Castaway · 6 October 1996·Sue Lawley

• Ben Elton

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  Ben Elton

  Ben Elton on his teenage plan to leave school and sweep up backstage

  Castaway · 29 September 1996·Sue Lawley

• Fran Landesman

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  Fran Landesman

  Fran Landesman on the origin of Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

  Castaway · 22 September 1996·Sue Lawley

• Kevin Whately

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  Kevin Whately

  Kevin Whately on considering a singing career while busking

  Castaway · 15 September 1996·Sue Lawley

• Professor Colin Blakemore

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  Professor Colin Blakemore

  Colin Blakemore on developing a stomach ulcer at the age of eleven

  Castaway · 8 September 1996·Sue Lawley

• Sir Terence Conran

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  Sir Terence Conran

  How a grocery queue helped Terence Conran accept a knighthood

  Castaway · 1 September 1996·Sue Lawley

• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

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  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch on why she owes her life to the cello

  Castaway · 25 August 1996·Sue Lawley

• André Previn

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  André Previn

  How a former client in the SS helped André Previn's family flee Nazi Germany

  Castaway · 18 August 1996·Sue Lawley

• Quentin Crewe

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  Quentin Crewe

  Quentin Crewe on having to carry his umbrella flapping like a rook at Eton

  Castaway · 16 June 1996·Sue Lawley

• Peggy Mount

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  Peggy Mount

  Peggy Mount on being told she had a character face

  Castaway · 9 June 1996·Sue Lawley

• Gerry Robinson

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  Gerry Robinson

  Gerry Robinson on his mother asking if he had his own office

  Castaway · 2 June 1996·Sue Lawley

• Michael White

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  Michael White

  Michael White on why we never saw his show 'I'

  Castaway · 26 May 1996·Sue Lawley

• Janet Holmes à Court

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  Janet Holmes à Court

  Janet Holmes à Court on making cups of tea for her husband

  Castaway · 19 May 1996·Sue Lawley

• Hugh Laurie

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  Hugh Laurie

  How an envelope from Stephen Fry revealed his disappearance to Hugh Laurie

  Castaway · 12 May 1996·Sue Lawley

• Pauline Quirke

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  Pauline Quirke

  Pauline Quirke on having a plaster cast made for The Sculptress

  Castaway · 5 May 1996·Sue Lawley

• Mitsuko Uchida

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  Mitsuko Uchida

  Mitsuko Uchida on answering her brother's piano questions at three

  Castaway · 28 April 1996·Sue Lawley

• Hanif Kureishi

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  Hanif Kureishi

  Hanif Kureishi on being racially insulted every day from age four to sixteen

  Castaway · 21 April 1996·Sue Lawley

• Viscount Rothermere

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  Viscount Rothermere

  Viscount Rothermere on his sinking heart at the prospect of a life of hunting and shooting

  Castaway · 14 April 1996·Sue Lawley

• Dickie Bird

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  Dickie Bird

  How Yorkshire players convinced Dickie Bird to become an umpire

  Castaway · 7 April 1996·Sue Lawley

• Simon Weston

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  Simon Weston

  Simon Weston on his mother not recognising him after the Falklands

  Castaway · 31 March 1996·Sue Lawley

• Kyra Vayne

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  Kyra Vayne

  Kyra Vayne on eating potato peels and rotten fish bones to survive the Russian Revolution

  Castaway · 24 March 1996·Sue Lawley

• Lord Alexander

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  Lord Alexander

  How a surprise visit from the chairman of NatWest led Alexander to leave the bar for banking

  Castaway · 17 March 1996·Sue Lawley

• Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP

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  Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP

  How a rugby injury cost Gordon Brown parts of three university years

  Castaway · 3 March 1996·Sue Lawley

• Sir Roy Calne

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  Sir Roy Calne

  Roy Calne on the collie dog that bounded into an auditorium after a kidney transplant

  Castaway · 25 February 1996·Sue Lawley

• Professor George Steiner

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  Professor George Steiner

  George Steiner on the moment his father called a mob 'history'

  Castaway · 18 February 1996·Sue Lawley

• Susan Hill

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  Susan Hill

  How Susan Hill wrote a book to cope with the death of her baby Imogen

  Castaway · 11 February 1996·Sue Lawley

• Eve Arnold

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  Eve Arnold

  Eve Arnold on Marilyn Monroe asking her 'Where do I go from here?'

  Castaway · 4 February 1996·Sue Lawley

• Julian Barnes

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  Julian Barnes

  Julian Barnes on thinking about death every day

  Castaway · 28 January 1996·Sue Lawley

• Chili Bouchier

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  Chili Bouchier

  Chili Bouchier on how Sybil Thorndyke taught her to say 'powder'

  Castaway · 21 January 1996·Sue Lawley

• Jimmy McGovern

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  Jimmy McGovern

  How Robbie Coltrane's casting made Jimmy McGovern suicidal

  Castaway · 14 January 1996·Sue Lawley

• Christopher Hampton

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  Christopher Hampton

  Christopher Hampton on writing his first play at the age of eight in Egypt

  Castaway · 7 January 1996·Sue Lawley