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2010s
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David Nicholls on the passage from Tess of the d'Urbervilles that inspired One Day
Nick Webborn on the moment he heard a crack in his neck on a rugby field
How carrying a survival guide as a child prepared Neil Gaiman for Desert Island Discs
Annie Nightingale on being told disc jockeys were husband substitutes
How Simon Armitage celebrated his Poet Laureate appointment by bouncing on a trampoline
Jacqueline de Rojas on being told we simply don't have women on the leadership team
Ann Cleeves on having a Shetland islander read each of her books before publication
Martina Cole on being expelled from convent school for reading Harold Robbins' The Betsy
Christopher Nolan on seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey on an enormous screen as a child
Stella McCartney on her children telling Paul McCartney to shut up while he played guitar
Christiane Amanpour on asking Slobodan Milosevic how he could sleep at night
Bradley Wiggins on being mobbed while taking his daughter to buy a mini iPod
Tanya Byron on how her grandmother’s murder sparked her interest in psychology
Alexandra Shulman on her English teacher saying she might work in a kindergarten
John Bishop on the night his ex-wife appeared during his 'head in the fridge' joke
Jimmy Mulville on spending a year contemplating the death of his acting dreams
Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Sister Paul reading his work aloud at age 11
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on making peppermint creams aged eight
Shami Chakrabarti on her earliest political memory of walking to the electric chair