Jarvis Cocker
Pulp's singer and musician, Jarvis Cocker is castaway by Sue Lawley.Jarvis formed the band Pulp in the late 1970s and says that as a gawky, self-conscious teenager he felt pop music did not properly i...
24 Apr 200533min
Patrick Stewart
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the actor Patrick StewartPatrick Stewart had to wait a long time for fame. The Shakespearean actor was nearly 50 when he was offered the role of Captain Jean-Luc Pic...
17 Apr 200535min
Philippe Petit
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the high wire walker Philippe Petit. Since the age of 17 Petit had been, in his own words, a 'wandering troubadour', making a living by doing magic in the salons of ...
10 Apr 200536min
Lorin Maazel
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the musical director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra Lorin Maazel. He was a child prodigy whose career as a conductor has survived, and thrived, beyond his ea...
3 Apr 200536min
Yvonne Brewster
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the theatre director Yvonne Brewster. She has been a major force in black British theatre for the last 20 years. Born into a wealthy family in Jamaica, Yvonne rebell...
27 Mars 200535min
Raymond Briggs
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the writer and illustrator Raymond Briggs. For millions of children, Christmas would be incomplete without Briggs's story The Snowman, which has been shown on televi...
20 Mars 200536min
Stephen Poliakoff
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the playwright and director Stephen Poliakoff. Stephen Poliakoff is probably best known for his explorations of the themes of memory, family and history in his drama...
13 Mars 200537min
Alison Richard
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the academic Professor Alison Richard. Professor Alison Richard is Cambridge University's first full-time female Vice-Chancellor. An anthropologist by training, the ...
6 Mars 200538min
