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460 episodes
Gwyneth Jones on her father dying two hours before her scholarship acceptance letter arrived
Maria Von Trapp on being born on a train with the conductor as midwife
How her husband's 'Well, then write' turned Rachel Billington into a novelist
George Thomas on his mother's resolve that he would not go down the pit
Carlo Curley on his first public performance with billiard chalk on his hands
Duchess of Devonshire on never wanting to see another firework
Jacques Cousteau on breaking thirty windows while testing a movie myth
John Mortimer on playing all the parts in Shakespeare as an only child, including duelling with himself
Julian Symons on being unable to find Middle C after seven years of piano lessons
Julia McKenzie on her first job as an understudy after only seeing the show three times
William Walton on choristers threatening to quit over Belshazzar's Feast
John Osborne on how a press officer coined the ‘angry young man’ label in a pub
Christopher Leaver on his earliest memory of a ship's cabin flooding