Professor Patricia Wiltshire
How a two-week-old nettle stem helped Patricia Wiltshire catch a murderer
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How a two-week-old nettle stem helped Patricia Wiltshire catch a murderer
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Jared Diamond on his only depression after a MacArthur Genius Grant
Nicholas Parsons on his mother's fear that show business would deprave him
How Christopher Lloyd replaced a Lutyens rose garden with bananas and palms
Martin Rees on how being bad at Greek and Latin steered him towards astronomy
Kyra Vayne on eating potato peels and rotten fish bones to survive the Russian Revolution
Maurice Saatchi on being carried off the field after a cricket ball ended his sporting career
Oliver Sacks on a patient who thought songs from the 1970s were music from the future
Richard Rogers on being beaten at boarding school for failing to remember lines
Penelope Lively on being told by her publisher she hadn't won the Booker Prize
Nigel Kennedy on getting a perfect score after his teacher warned him against playing jazz
Carlo Curley on his first public performance with billiard chalk on his hands
Frankie Howerd on making up Bible stories as a Sunday school teacher aged 13
Grace Kelly on being turned down by a college because of returning GIs
Catherine Gaskin on practicing piano at her teacher's house every morning at 7:30
Anthony Lawrence on being told the only way to be a journalist is to be one
Geoffrey Parsons on his childhood Saturday mornings of music lessons and clean sheets
Wendy Hiller on managing two large parts with only six rehearsals and one dress rehearsal
Isaac Stern on the friend who inspired his violin playing – and now sells insurance