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Back to SearchDr Dame Sue Ion
Kirsty Young's castaway is the engineer and nuclear scientist Dr Dame Sue Ion.
The first woman to be awarded the highly prestigious President's Medal …
10 years ago
Hugh Bonneville
Kirsty Young's castaway is Hugh Bonneville.
Known around the world for his portrayal of Lord Grantham in ITV's hugely popular Downton Abbey, he made B…
10 years, 1 month ago
Dame Zaha Hadid
Kirsty Young's castaway is the architect, Dame Zaha Hadid.
The first woman to be awarded architecture's highest honour, the Pritzker Prize, she design…
10 years, 1 month ago
Ben Saunders
Kirsty Young's castaway is the polar adventurer Ben Saunders. In his own words he "specialises in dragging heavy things around cold places".
He's one …
10 years, 1 month ago
Professor Dame Carol Black
Kirsty Young's castaway is Professor Dame Carol Black.
She is Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, and is a special adviser to the Department of H…
10 years, 1 month ago
Bill Gates
Kirsty Young's castaway is Bill Gates.
He sat at his first computer while still at school in Seattle, wrote his first computer programme aged just 13 …
10 years, 1 month ago
Sigrid Rausing
Kirsty Young's castaway is the philanthropist and publisher Sigrid Rausing.
Founder of one of the UK's largest philanthropic foundations, her trust ha…
10 years, 2 months ago
Sir Anthony Seldon
Kirsty Young's castaway is the educationalist and writer, Sir Anthony Seldon.
Now Vice-Chancellor of Buckingham University, he was the Master of Welli…
10 years, 2 months ago
Alex Crawford
Kirsty Young's castaway is the Sky TV news correspondent Alex Crawford.
She's won the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year award an unpre…
10 years, 2 months ago
Colm Toibin
Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Colm Toibin.
Best-known for his novels "Brooklyn" - now made into a film - "Nora Webster" and "The Master," he h…
10 years, 2 months ago