Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber on building a toy theatre and getting his first tune published at age eight
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Andrew Lloyd Webber on building a toy theatre and getting his first tune published at age eight
Clarissa Dickson Wright on the carrots her father fed her, still with slugs on them
How the Vienna Philharmonic apologised to Roger Norrington for their vibrato
Patricia Routledge on the terror of putting her hand on the door handle before every performance
Ann Widdecombe on taking a risk with an unscripted party conference speech
James Dyson on welding a giant cyclone and racing home to rip the bag off his vacuum cleaner
Anthony Howard on how friendship with Charles Straitshey changed his politics
How falling off a donkey as a child convinced Richard Dunwoody he was a jockey
Fay Maschler on being caught in disguise as Shirley Bassey by Marco Pierre White
Richard Curtis on the film idea he conceived at a petrol station then threw away
Maria Ewing on thinking her mother's compliment meant she couldn't play the piano
Bill Bryson on waking up in New Hampshire and realising his return to America was a catastrophe
David Shepherd on being told to ‘go and drive a bus’ by the Slade School of Art
Dick Francis on the heartbreaking collapse of Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National