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122 episodes
Brenda Hale on why she wore a spider brooch for the prorogation judgment
How a chance encounter in a bookshop sent Carlos Frenk's family to Mexico
Stella McCartney on her children telling Paul McCartney to shut up while he played guitar
John Bishop on the night his ex-wife appeared during his 'head in the fridge' joke
How wearing skirts helped Felicity Green navigate Fleet Street's boardroom
Stuart Rose on his father being adopted by a Quaker lady named Nona Ransom
Jerry Springer on resigning from Cincinnati City Council after visiting a prostitute
Antonio Carluccio on the sad state of Italian food when he arrived in London
Beryl Bainbridge on being thrown out of school for illustrating a dirty rhyme
Steven Isserlis on comparing listening to his own recordings to a dog sniffing the pavement
Raymond Tallis on his father asking why treat old people since everyone dies
How Chris Lowe hissed "don't look triumphant" at Neil Tennant on Top of the Pops
David Edgar on the night before his wife died when she said 'I do have a right to my anger'
Peter Maxwell Davies on hearing the music he was going to write in a Lake District mist
Kim Cattrall on her childhood ambition to sing Jingle Bells in a Christmas pageant
Michael Howard on his aunt surviving three trips to the Auschwitz gas chamber
Cormac Murphy O'Connor on waking up at three in the morning and wondering if it's all true