Martina Navratilova
Kirsty Young's castaway is the legendary tennis player, Martina Navratilova. In an extraordinary career she's won 59 Grand Slam titles - her last just a few weeks short of her fiftieth birthday. Her l...
8 Jul 201237min
Charles Jencks
Kirsty Young's castaway is the architectural critic and writer Charles Jencks.Born in America, for the past four decades he has lived and worked in Britain - where his designs are as likely to be foun...
1 Jul 201238min
John Bishop
Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian John Bishop.Growing up on a Merseyside council estate, his early ambition was to play football for Liverpool - otherwise, he thought he might find a way out by ...
24 Jun 201236min
Ahdaf Soueif
Kirsty Young's castaway is the Egyptian writer and commentator Ahdaf Soueif.She was the first Muslim woman to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize and, from an early age, her life has been divided betw...
17 Jun 201236min
Doreen Lawrence
Kirsty Young's castaway is the campaigner Doreen Lawrence. The life she thought was hers ended when her son Stephen was murdered by a group of young white men on a street in London in 1993. In the yea...
10 Jun 201236min
Margaret Rhodes
Kirsty Young's castaway is Margaret Rhodes. As the first cousin to the Queen, she has a unique insight into the life of the royal family. She used to spend her summer holidays at Balmoral with the Pri...
3 Jun 201236min
Denise Robertson
Kirsty Young's castaway is the agony aunt and writer Denise Robertson. She is, she says, one of life's survivors -- yet she seems to have had more than her fair share of tragedy; she's been widowed tw...
27 Mai 201235min
Peter Ackroyd
Kirsty Young's castaway is the novelist, historian and biographer, Peter Ackroyd. As a child he used to walk the streets of London with his grandmother - an experience that, he believes, fostered his ...
20 Mai 201239min
