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Hanif Kureishi on being racially insulted every day from age four to sixteen
Viscount Rothermere on his sinking heart at the prospect of a life of hunting and shooting
Kyra Vayne on eating potato peels and rotten fish bones to survive the Russian Revolution
How a surprise visit from the chairman of NatWest led Alexander to leave the bar for banking
How a rugby injury cost Gordon Brown parts of three university years
Roy Calne on the collie dog that bounded into an auditorium after a kidney transplant
Christopher Hampton on writing his first play at the age of eight in Egypt
Alison Steadman on her son taking a newspaper to stop her crying over a bad review
George Martin on the morning in June 1962 when the Beatles walked into Abbey Road
How a friend's request for a short story led Umberto Eco to write The Name of the Rose
Gillian Shephard on being stuck in a teaching routine she didn't enjoy
Elizabeth Jane Howard on the faded photograph that made her dread war
Richard Hoggart on putting his cap in his pocket after schoolboys threw it off daily
Maurice Saatchi on being carried off the field after a cricket ball ended his sporting career
Max Nicholson on the visit to the Natural History Museum's bird gallery that set him on his life's work
How learning he would inherit the family estate made the Duke of Westminster want to run for the door
Marianne Faithfull on the Redlands drug bust she believes was an MI5 set-up
Neil Simon on his brother predicting at age 15 he’d be America’s best comedy writer
George Lloyd on surviving a shipwreck that drowned his comrades in thick black oil