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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
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