Stephen Merchant
How Stephen Merchant discovered a John Cleese message on his parents’ answerphone
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How Stephen Merchant discovered a John Cleese message on his parents’ answerphone
Russell Foster on his headmaster describing him as entirely non-academic
Asif Kapadia on swearing off exams after his mother's electric shock treatment
Stephen Graham on his dad renting The Godfather, Taxi Driver and The Deer Hunter
Len Goodman on being bathed in a beetroot boiler as a child
Sally Davies on sitting all night with a young woman drowning in her own lung fluid
John Cooper Clarke on persuading Bernard Manning to book him with a poem about a punch-up
Monica McWilliams on watching Mo Mowlam take off her wig to negotiate
Derren Brown on his student phase as a 'gay leisure pirate' reading Nietzsche in a cave
Louis Theroux on the freedom of filming with a gun nut on a hillside in Idaho
Jacqueline de Rojas on being told we simply don't have women on the leadership team
Margaret MacMillan on finding Winston Churchill's scribbled comments in a pre-WWI document
Ann Cleeves on having a Shetland islander read each of her books before publication
How a phone call from Amber Rudd confirmed Cressida Dick as Met Commissioner
Bob Mortimer on first seeing Vic Reeves with a Bryan Ferry mask and planks on his feet
How James Rebanks' dad told him to stop being a pain in the ass and go to Oxford