5 episodes

• 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

• 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

• Elizabeth Jennings

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  Elizabeth Jennings

  How a breakdown liberated Elizabeth Jennings to write dozens of poems

  Castaway · 3 January 1993·Sue Lawley

• Duke

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  Duke & Duchess of Devonshire

  Duchess of Devonshire on never wanting to see another firework

  Castaway · 28 August 1982·Roy Plomley

• John Laurie

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  John Laurie

  How John Laurie was carried from Passchendale on a stretcher, unwounded

  Castaway · 15 May 1976·Roy Plomley