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Jimmy Mulville on spending a year contemplating the death of his acting dreams
Gyorgy Pauk on always keeping extra food in hotels after surviving the Budapest ghetto
Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Sister Paul reading his work aloud at age 11
Maggie Aderin-Pocock on vowing to be as good as any boy to prove her father wrong
How a 4,000-volt near-miss sent Jim Al-Khalili from the lab to theory
Mary Beard on how her breastfeeding heroism was remembered as dereliction of duty
Mary Portas on her tearful supermarket encounter with her father's second wife
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