BBC Radio Podcasts from The House I Grew Up In

The House I Grew Up In

Toby Young

Writer and journalist Toby Young revisits his childhood home and education in North London

Jasvinder Sanghera

Jasvinder Sanghera, campaigner against forced marriages, returns to her Sikh childhood.

Terry Waite

Terry Waite returns to his childhood home in the small Cheshire village of Styal.

Shirley Williams

Baroness Shirley Williams returns to her childhood homes.

Peter Hitchens

Writer Peter Hitchens returns to Portsmouth with Wendy Robbins.

Sir William Atkinson

Super-head Sir William Atkinson shows Wendy Robbins the London haunts of his childhood.

Kay Mellor

TV screenwriter Kay Mellor takes Wendy Robbins to her childhood home and haunts in Leeds.

Julia Hobsbawm

Businesswoman Julia Hobsbawm takes Wendy Robbins to Hampstead and rural north Wales.

Colin Blakemore

Neurobiologist Prof Colin Blakemore takes Wendy Robbins to his childhood home in Coventry.

Kwame Kwei-Armah

Kwame Kwei-Armah recalls his childhood in Southall, west London, in the 1970s.

Erin Pizzey

Campaigner and author Erin Pizzey explores her troubled childhood in post-war Dorset.

Professor Steve Jones

Biologist Steve Jones takes Wendy Robbins back to his childhood in west Wales in the 1950s

Baroness Jane Campbell

Disability campaigner Baroness Jane Campbell revisits her childhood home in Surrey.

Baroness Mary Warnock

The philosopher heads back to her Winchester birthplace, home to her single mother of five

Joanna Briscoe

Wendy Robbins takes the novelist back to her isolated childhood home in Dartmoor.

David Blunkett

The politician takes Wendy Robbins to the boarding schools for the blind that he attended.

Mona Siddiqui

Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic Studies at Glasgow University, returns to Huddersfield

Sir Tom Farmer

Wendy Robbins takes the Kwik Fit car repair firm founder back to his Leith childhood home.

Jackie Kay

Poet Jackie Kay recalls a childhood in Glasgow which inspired her to write.

Jacqueline Gold

Ann Summers Chief Executive Jacqueline Gold revisits the suburbs of Kent.

Peter Hennessy

Historian and journalist Peter Hennessy returns to Finchley in North London.