Gavin Laird
Gavin Laird on wealthy families offering to take the dog instead of evacuee children
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Gavin Laird on wealthy families offering to take the dog instead of evacuee children
Juliet Stevenson on reading a poem at age nine that sparked her acting instinct
Bob Geldof on the Live Aid moment he realised people in Shanghai or Tierra del Fuego were watching
How Margaret Thatcher told David Mellor he'd never make a living at the Chancery Bar
How a four-letter word on TV cost Peregrine Worsthorne the Sunday Telegraph editorship
Michael Grade on being shocked by anti-Semitism and bullying at public school
Will Carling on being slapped by his mother after losing his temper at cricket
How a banana thrown across the room proved to Henrietta her husband was recovering
Anthony Rolfe Johnson on being told he was in the wrong job by a singing teacher
How Elvis Costello stood outside a bank with a whistle during bullion deliveries
How a Marlon Brown impersonation in a bar landed Robbie Coltrane his first paid acting job
David Jenkins on the violence of the reaction to his questioning of the virgin birth
Elizabeth Esteve-Coll on learning oxyacetylene welding on a Spanish ship
John Schlesinger on his father's question about the Jewish character in Sunday Bloody Sunday