Professor Angela Gallop
Angela Gallop on taking a Buzz Lightyear toy to a police lecture
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1980s
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Angela Gallop on taking a Buzz Lightyear toy to a police lecture
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Alison Balsom on the concert that made her want to play the trumpet aged 10
Bryan Stevenson on the death row prisoner who sang a hymn that changed his life
Maggie Aderin-Pocock on vowing to be as good as any boy to prove her father wrong
Mary Beard on how her breastfeeding heroism was remembered as dereliction of duty
David Dimbleby on seeing women dance with knickers on their heads around his father
Peter Mansfield on climbing into his prototype MRI scanner in complete darkness
How hiding behind a curtain reunited Shirley Williams with her mother
Timothy Spall on his drama teacher's extraordinary praise after playing the lion in The Wizard of Oz
How Rupert Murdoch asked Harold Evans to resign while he prepared for his father's funeral
Michael Holroyd on his father threatening to take him to court over his novel
James Dyson on welding a giant cyclone and racing home to rip the bag off his vacuum cleaner
Archie Norman on creating a standing room to prevent dozing during meetings
How Elvis Costello stood outside a bank with a whistle during bullion deliveries
Elizabeth Esteve-Coll on learning oxyacetylene welding on a Spanish ship
Penelope Lively on being told by her publisher she hadn't won the Booker Prize
Miriam Rothschild on losing her microscope vision and turning to wildflowers