Paul Dacre
25 Jan 2004
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is one of Britain's most powerful newspaper men - Paul Dacre, editor...
Stephen Frears
18 Jan 2004
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the film director Stephen Frears. His film credits include My Bea...
Jimmy Tarbuck
11 Jan 2004
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the entertainer Jimmy Tarbuck. Originally from Liverpool, he bega...
Martha Lane Fox
04 Jan 2004
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the dot-com millionaire and businesswoman Martha Lane Fox. She sa...
Paul O'Grady
28 Dec 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway is the entertainer Paul O'Grady. Best known as the 'Blonde Bombshell', Lily Sa...
Emmylou Harris
21 Dec 2003
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the country rock singer Emmylou Harris. Born in Alabama in 1947, ...
Nicholas Grimshaw
14 Dec 2003
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw. An interest in engineering r...
Pat Barker
07 Dec 2003
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the Booker prize-winning novelist Pat Barker. Pat Barker was 39 w...
Henry Blofeld
30 Nov 2003
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the cricket commentator Henry Blofeld. Blofeld's become known as ...
Sir Christopher Meyer
23 Nov 2003
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the chairman of the Press Complaints Commission Sir Christopher M...
Jeremy Clarkson
16 Nov 2003
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the motoring journalist and motor-mouth Jeremy Clarkson. He came ...
Christopher Frayling
02 Nov 2003
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is Professor Sir Christopher Frayling the Rector of the Royal Colleg...
Rt Hon Charles Kennedy MP
26 Oct 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy. Born in Inve...
Bill Cullen
19 Oct 2003
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This week, Sue Lawley's castaway is the Irish businessman and writer Bill Cullen. He was one of 14 c...
Herbert Kretzmer
12 Oct 2003
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the journalist and songwriter Herbert Kretzmer. Born in South Afr...
Nigella Lawson
05 Oct 2003
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the broadcaster, cook, mother and domestic goddess Nigella Lawson...
Nick Hornby
28 Sep 2003
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the internationally successful author Nick Hornby. Originally fro...
Bryn Terfel
21 Sep 2003
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel. Still only in his 30s, he's ...
Barbara Taylor Bradford
06 Jul 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the popular novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford. Born in Upper Armle...
Daniel Libeskind
29 Jun 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the architect Daniel Libeskind. Daniel Libeskind's parents were P...
Bishop John Sentamu
22 Jun 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is The Bishop of Birmingham, John Sentamu. When John Sentamu was bor...
Mark Tully
15 Jun 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the veteran broadcaster Mark Tully. Born in Calcutta and with anc...
Vittorio Radice
08 Jun 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Vittorio Radice. Born in 1957 and brought up near Lake Como, Radi...
Meera Syal
01 Jun 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the actor and writer Meera Syal. She was born in the sixties afte...
Derek Brown
25 May 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Derek Brown the Director of the Michelin Red Guides which are the...
Franco Zeffirelli
18 May 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the director Franco Zeffirelli. He was born the illegitimate son ...
George Fenton
11 May 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the composer George Fenton, whose work includes music for Groundh...
Professor A H Halsey
04 May 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the sociologist and Oxford Emeritus Professor A H Halsey. Prof Ha...
Rory Bremner
20 Apr 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the impressionist and satirist Rory Bremner. He was born in Edinb...
Margaret Atwood
13 Apr 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the writer Margaret Atwood. Born just after the outbreak of the S...
David Gilmour
06 Apr 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. Gilmour grew up in Cambridge, where ...
Kristin Scott Thomas
30 Mar 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the actress Kristin Scott Thomas. She was born in Redruth, Cornwa...
Claude-Michel Schonberg
23 Mar 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the composer of the hit musicals Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, ...
Nick Danziger
16 Mar 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the photo journalist Nick Danziger. Nick was born in London but g...
Vic Reeves
09 Mar 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the comedian Jim Moir, best known by the name of his alter ego Vi...
Gene Pitney
02 Mar 2003
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"Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the singer-songwriter Gene Pitney. Gene grew up in Rockville, Co...
George Clooney
23 Feb 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the actor, George Clooney. George was born in Lexington, Kentucky...
Cornelia Parker
16 Feb 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the artist Cornelia Parker. Cornelia grew up in the country where...
Sir Ian McKellen
09 Feb 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the actor Sir Ian McKellen. Ian grew up in Lancashire attending W...
Paul Whitehouse
02 Feb 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the comedian and star of The Fast Show, Paul Whitehouse. Born in ...
Sir Trevor Nunn
26 Jan 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the theatre director Trevor Nunn. At the age of five Trevor had d...
Professor Baruch Blumberg
19 Jan 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Professor Baruch Blumberg. Barr...
Gillian Anderson
12 Jan 2003
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Gillian Anderson, best known for her role as Dana Scully in The X...
George Foreman
05 Jan 2003
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George Foreman was born in Texas into a large but poor family. His earliest memories are of being hu...
Patricia Cornwell
29 Dec 2002
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Patricia Daniels was born in 1956 in Miami, Florida. After her parents divorced she moved with her m...
Rowan Williams
22 Dec 2002
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Rowan Williams grew up in Swansea and Cardiff. He enjoyed reading, being outdoors and acting in scho...
Sinead Cusack
15 Dec 2002
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Sinead Cusack was born in Ireland into a acting dynasty. Her first ambition, whilst at convent schoo...
Linton Kwesi Johnson
08 Dec 2002
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Sue Lawley's castaway is dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in 1950s rural...
John Malkovich
01 Dec 2002
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John Malkovich makes his film directorial debut this year with The Dancer Upstairs. He's best known ...
Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP
24 Nov 2002
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Described by Lord Tebbit as "a remarkably normal family man with children", Iain has just completed ...
Christopher Ondaatje
17 Nov 2002
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Christopher Ondaatje was born in the British colony of Ceylon and educated at Blundell's School in T...
Marguerite Wolff
15 Nov 2002
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Marguerite Wolff has dedicated her life to performing all around the world. Sir Arthur Bliss compose...
Rt Hon Robin Cook MP
03 Nov 2002
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Robin Cook was born in Larnarkshire, east of Glasgow; an only child whose father was a science teach...
P D James
27 Oct 2002
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P D James was born in Oxford, later moving to Ludlow on the Welsh Borders where she experienced a ch...
Carl Djerassi
20 Oct 2002
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Carl Djerassi was born in Vienna to an Austrian mother and Bulgarian father. Both parents were invol...
Paul Gambaccini
13 Oct 2002
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Paul Gambaccini was born in New York City in 1949 and revelled growing up to the sounds of the 1960s...
Philip Pullman
06 Oct 2002
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Philip Pullman is the author of the celebrated His Dark Materials trilogy: Northern Lights, The Subt...
Dame Alicia Markova
29 Sep 2002
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Dame Alicia Markova was born Lilian Alice Marks in December 1910, in a two-bedroom flat in Finsbury ...
Timothy Spall
22 Sep 2002
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Timothy Spall grew up in Battersea, South London. He found school pretty uninspiring and left with a...
Brian May
15 Sep 2002
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Brian May spent his childhood in Feltham near London and he learnt his first chords on his father's ...
Alan Titchmarsh
07 Jul 2002
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Alan Titchmarsh was drawn to gardening from an early age in Ilkley, Yorkshire, making his first poly...
Minette Walters
30 Jun 2002
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After Minette Walters' father died of injuries sustained in World War II she won a scholarship to Go...
Countess Elizabeth Longford
23 Jun 2002
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Elizabeth Harman was born in London in 1906. Her parents were both doctors, her mother was the niece...
Jan Morris
16 Jun 2002
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Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Jan Morris.
Leonard Rosoman
09 Jun 2002
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Leonard Rosoman's career saw him travel the world as an Official War Artist in the Second World War....
Sue Johnston
26 May 2002
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Sue Johnston has rarely been out of work since she made her name in Brookside. Her versatility is cl...
Suggs
19 May 2002
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Suggs made his name as front man of 80s pop phenomenon Madness and impressed a whole generation with...
Sir Aaron Klug
12 May 2002
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Sir Aaron Klug grew up in Durban, South Africa on the edge of the Bush, which provided him with enou...
Jude Kelly
05 May 2002
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the theatre director Jude Kelly. Currently based at...
Betty Jackson
28 Apr 2002
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the fashion designer Betty Jackson. For three decad...
Wayne Marshall
21 Apr 2002
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the organist Wayne Marshall. He describes himself a...
Sir Christopher Bland
14 Apr 2002
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the Chairman of BT, Sir Christopher Bland. Passiona...
Fiona Reynolds
07 Apr 2002
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the Director General of the National Trust, Fiona R...
Gordon Ramsay
31 Mar 2002
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the chef Gordon Ramsay, the only British chef in th...
Dorothy Rowe
24 Mar 2002
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the psychologist Dorothy Rowe, author of groundbrea...
Fay Godwin
17 Mar 2002
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the landscape photographer Fay Godwin. Her evocativ...
Dame Beryl Grey
10 Mar 2002
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the ballerina, Dame Beryl Grey. When she joined Sad...
Lord May
03 Mar 2002
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This week's Sue Lawley's castaway is the President of the Royal Society, Lord May. During his tenu...
Sue MacGregor
24 Feb 2002
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Sue Lawley's castaway is broadcaster Sue MacGregor.Favourite track: Adagio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozar...
Kazuo Ishiguro
17 Feb 2002
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the award-winning writer, Kazuo Ishiguro. Titles su...
Sir Paul Nurse
10 Feb 2002
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is Sir Paul Nurse, the Director General of Science for...
David Linley
03 Feb 2002
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is Viscount Linley. The son of Princess Margaret and t...
Phyllis Sellick
27 Jan 2002
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the pianist, Phyllis Sellick.Phyllis Sellick enjoye...
Bob Worcester
20 Jan 2002
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Sue Lawley's castaway is pollster Bob Worcester.Favourite track: Organ Symphony in C Minor: Finale b...
Susana Walton
13 Jan 2002
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is Lady Walton. Within two weeks of meeting the compos...
Sir Peter Morris
06 Jan 2002
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Sue Lawley's castaway is President of the Royal College of Surgeons Sir Peter Morris.Favourite track...
Ewan McGregor
30 Dec 2001
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the actor Ewan McGregor. In the last 10 years, Ewan...
Jamie Oliver
23 Dec 2001
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Sue Lawley's castaway is TV chef Jamie Oliver.Favourite track: Only To Be With You by Roachford Book...
Anne Fine
16 Dec 2001
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the Children's Laureate Anne Fine. She wrote her fi...
Cameron Mackintosh
09 Dec 2001
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When, at the tender age of eight, Sir Cameron Mackintosh went to see a production of Salad Days, he ...
Rt Hon William Hague MP
02 Dec 2001
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the Rt Hon. William Hague, MP for Richmond. He talk...
Ken Follett
25 Nov 2001
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the writer Ken Follett. Novels such as Eye of the N...
Billy Connolly
18 Nov 2001
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This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the comedian and actor, Billy Connolly. His one-man...
Simon Schama
02 Sep 2001
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the historian Simon Schama. Books such as The Embarrassment of Ri...
Lord Roll
26 Aug 2001
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Lord Roll.Now in his 90s, Eric Roll is enjoying his third career ...
Bruce Fogle
19 Aug 2001
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the vet Bruce Fogle. His interest in the relationship between pet...
Joss Ackland
12 Aug 2001
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Sue Lawley's castaway is actor Joss Ackland.Favourite track: My Cup Runneth Over by Mary Martin and ...
Lord Deedes
05 Aug 2001
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Lord Deedes. In a journalistic career spanning 70 years, Bill Dee...
Claudia Roden
29 Jul 2001
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the award-winning cookery writer Claudia Roden whose Book of Midd...
Cormac Murphy O'Connor
22 Jul 2001
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Sue Lawley's castaway is Archbishop of Westminster Cormac Murphy O'Connor.Favourite track: Praise to...