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423 episodes
Shami Chakrabarti on her earliest political memory of walking to the electric chair
Ruthie Henshall on the sexual abuse that began when she was four and a half
Antonia Fraser on her 'don't come in' notice for writing while raising six children
Antonio Carluccio on the sad state of Italian food when he arrived in London
Penelope Wilton on the warm air from a pantomime stage that made her want to act
David Dimbleby on seeing women dance with knickers on their heads around his father
Martin Evans on receiving his Nobel Prize call in his oldest clothes with a sander
Beryl Bainbridge on being thrown out of school for illustrating a dirty rhyme
John Humphrys on fearing his career was over after Jonathan Aitken's accusation
Karren Brady on being asked for her vital statistics at her first press conference
Steven Isserlis on comparing listening to his own recordings to a dog sniffing the pavement
Eliza Manningham-Buller on the lift ride when she wondered which colleague was a traitor
Jung Chang on her grandmother crying in a mosquito net and cursing the Communists
Nicholas Parsons on his mother's fear that show business would deprave him
Vladimir Jurowski on conducting La Bohème the day after his father's heart attack