HRH The Duchess of Kent
The Duchess of Kent on her first memory of music from a Victorian musical box
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The Duchess of Kent on her first memory of music from a Victorian musical box
Nigel Lawson on switching from maths at Oxford before he was found out
Diana Mosley on missing three and a half years of her children's lives in prison
Penelope Lively on being told by her publisher she hadn't won the Booker Prize
Eric Clapton on discovering at nine that his parents were actually his grandparents
Vera Lynn on the Dutchman who hid in a hay rick to hear her banned broadcasts
Thomas Armstrong on singing for Queen Alexandra as a nine-year-old chorister
Jonathon Porritt on being taken aback by Mrs Thatcher's environmental speech
Richard Branson on his agonizing meetings with artists while being tone deaf
Nicholas Henderson on a US senator's warning about Falklands casualties
Miriam Rothschild on losing her microscope vision and turning to wildflowers
Josephine Barnes on her father becoming a mature undergraduate at Oxford aged 44
Enoch Powell on describing his younger self as a ‘learning machine’ at Cambridge
Joan Armatrading on arriving from the Caribbean alone aged seven with a sign around her neck
Robert Runcie on turning back to rescue a crewmate from a burning tank
Bob Champion on watching the Grand National on the Pathé News aged nine
Bob Hoskins on landing a lead role while accompanying a mate to an audition