Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Decade
423 episodes
Andrew Davies on making up scenes and convincing people Jane Austen wrote them
Thomas Keneally on meeting a Schindler survivor in a Beverly Hills luggage store
How the deaths of both parents in a few weeks left Oliver Postgate in charge of the real world
Simon Russell Beale on being cast as Desdemona by his English teacher at 13
Greg Dyke on reading Lord Hutton's report and knowing the public would side with the BBC
Joanna Lumley on being put in a private hospital room because she had no male visitor
Raymond Tallis on his father asking why treat old people since everyone dies
JP Donleavy on Brendan Behan breaking into his cottage to read The Ginger Man
Paul Abbott on knocking on his mother's door and discovering he'd been swapped
How Chris Lowe hissed "don't look triumphant" at Neil Tennant on Top of the Pops
Edna O'Brien on her mother burying a censored copy of The Country Girls in a field
Natasha Spender on improvising on the piano to communicate with her father
Anthony Horowitz on discovering writing as an escape from a cold boarding school
Raymond Gubbay on the moment his father got him involved in Mozart's Il Seraglio
John Stevens on dealing with a fatally burnt man during his first weeks on the beat
Humphrey Lyttelton on pedalling away from his sister's terrible friends
How a 13-year-old drug runner brought his younger siblings to Camila Batmanghelidjh
David Edgar on the night before his wife died when she said 'I do have a right to my anger'