Professor J K Galbraith
J K Galbraith on interrogating Nazi leaders like Goering and Speer
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J K Galbraith on interrogating Nazi leaders like Goering and Speer
Paul McCartney on swapping his trumpet for a guitar and discovering he was left-handed
Frankie Howerd on making up Bible stories as a Sunday school teacher aged 13
Trevor Brooking on being forced to practise with only his weaker foot as a child
Earl of Harewood on worrying his royal bargaining power as a POW was a bluff
Jack Higgins on his first job as a messenger boy in the Leeds cleansing department
Douglas Bader on landing on one leg after his prosthetic came off during a parachute jump
James Clavell on being given a proclamation from King George VI as a returning POW
Glyn Daniel on visiting every megalithic monument in southern Britain
Patrick Lichfield on his first photography session with Jacqueline Bissett and Charlotte Rampling
How Malcolm Muggeridge learned in the Soviet Union that power cannot make men good
How a freeze in the 800 metres forced Sebastian Coe to refocus for the 1500 final
Julian Lloyd Webber on choosing the cello to get out of practising the piano
Carl Sagan on the moment the scale of the universe opened up for him as a child
Gillian Lynne on deciding to sing as well as dance after seeing South Pacific
How a sergeant's sleepless night saved Giuseppe Di Stefano from the Russian front
William Whitelaw on acting as a bouncer at Churchill's Cambridge speech
Frederick Ashton on being riveted by Anna Pavlova's performance aged 13
Grace Kelly on being turned down by a college because of returning GIs
How Churchill introduced Fitzroy MacLean as a young man who made a public convenience of Parliament
Patricia Ruanne on hiding behind a character to overcome performance nerves