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424 episodes
Oliver Sacks on a patient who thought songs from the 1970s were music from the future
Shirley Anne Field on wiping off her make-up to land her role in The Entertainer
How a blind date at a university ball led Sybil Marshall to the love of her life
Raymond Seitz on the bartender more astonished than him by a White House call
Virginia Bottomley on being told she didn't enjoy being a child
How a request to paint fingernails on a Paris flight led Peter Palumbo to his wife
Paul Merton on conducting the Joe Loss Orchestra with a knitting needle aged two
Isabel Allende on her family playing the roles from The House of the Spirits
Betty Boothroyd on being the only person who believed she could win a 20,000 Tory majority
Arnold Weinstock on being sent with a label and gas mask to the wilds of Warwickshire
David Croft on how Jimmy Perry got the idea for Dad's Army from the Home Guard at Buckingham Palace
Ken Livingstone on being greeted by the deputy whip as a horrible little monster
Elijah Moshinsky on the night people walked out of his play because the theatre had no centre aisle
Evelyn Glennie on telling musical intervals by where she feels them in her feet
Ghillean Prance on being marooned in the Amazon for eight days with no food
John Eliot Gardiner on his zany pilgrimage route from Samarkand to Seville
Christabel Bielenberg on ringing the Gestapo and demanding they turn off the lights
Norman Schwarzkopf on his five-year-old son's drawing of a general