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424 episodes
How Maxwell Hutchinson could play the Dambusters March on piano without ever being taught
Alan Bleasdale on writing in a converted toilet with his dad's cement mixer outside
Marco Pierre White on the two kids who wanted chicken Kiev for their wedding
John Smith on being told he was fine before collapsing with a heart attack
Cecil Lewis on lasting nine months as a fighter pilot when the average life was three weeks
Shirley Porter on being denied head girl, possibly because of her Jewish name
Ninette de Valois on the moment Margot Fonteyn stood out like a diamond
Paddy Ashdown on being asked to call himself Captain Jeremy John Durham Ashton
Ralf Dahrendorf on being called a social democrat in the Hitler Youth
How Fred Zinnemann's violin playing made his baby brother cry and his dog howl
Adelaide Hall on accidentally inventing scat while humming to Ellington's 'Creole Love Call'
Eduardo Paolozzi on the night his father was taken away and never seen again
Barbara Castle on her mother’s feeding kitchen for miners’ children during the 1920s lockout
Nicholas Snowman on his Cambridge sadness that music might not exist anymore
Barbara Windsor on practising to become a nun with a tea towel over her head
How timing bubbles helped Robin Knox-Johnston navigate when his log failed