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Michael Caine on his mother still working as a cleaner after he became a millionaire
Patricia Scotland on meeting her husband after planning to dedicate her life to God
Stuart Rose on his father being adopted by a Quaker lady named Nona Ransom
Jerry Springer on resigning from Cincinnati City Council after visiting a prostitute
How Colin Pillinger spent Christmas morning waiting for a signal from Mars
Ellen MacArthur on sitting on a toilet seat after sailing solo round the world
Joan Bakewell on the shock of seeing her affair dramatised in Harold Pinter's Betrayal
How Nicky Haslam went to work with a face the size of a football after a facelift
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on making peppermint creams aged eight
David Mitchell on deciding to become a comedian in his first term at Cambridge
Hugh Pennington on examining a PhD thesis at the lab where smallpox escaped
Harvey Goldsmith on Keith Moon throwing a television into a swimming pool
Whoopi Goldberg on writing to Alice Walker to play the dirt in The Color Purple
Sebastian Faulks on his publisher's head-in-hands reaction to his Birdsong pitch
Richard Madeley on his wife's 'three pack' reply to his marriage proposal
Kay Davies on her parents almost having to glue her to the seat at Oxford
Simon Murray on being forced to run in circles with rocks in the Foreign Legion
Michael Deeley on the secret exhilaration of surviving a shooting in Malaya
Marcus du Sautoy on a teacher with a cigar who showed him the real maths