Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee on his mother's motorbike and a tent made from parachute material
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2000s
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Tim Berners-Lee on his mother's motorbike and a tent made from parachute material
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Jung Chang on her grandmother crying in a mosquito net and cursing the Communists
Thomas Keneally on meeting a Schindler survivor in a Beverly Hills luggage store
Edna O'Brien on her mother burying a censored copy of The Country Girls in a field
John Stevens on dealing with a fatally burnt man during his first weeks on the beat
David Edgar on the night before his wife died when she said 'I do have a right to my anger'
John Rutter on the out-of-tune upright piano that opened a world of magic at age three
David Hope on following the stations of the cross in Notre Dame before a press conference
Peter Maxwell Davies on hearing the music he was going to write in a Lake District mist
Baruch Blumberg on the three years it took to connect an Australian blood sample to hepatitis B