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George McGavin on the Attenborough programme about spider sex that captivated him as a child
Monica Galetti on cutting off the top of her finger during a cookery demo
Minette Batters on the doctor who drove out to test her son for diabetes
Helen Oxenbury on being bedridden with asthma and drawing to pass the time
David Mitchell on being unable to say ‘Napoleon’ at school due to his stammer
Hilary McGrady on a custodian who lifted a pipe bomb from a National Trust house
Averil Mansfield on repeatedly removing her toy panda's appendix
Samantha Morton on snapping and fighting back against a bully in a homeless hostel
Yusuf Cat Stevens on being treated in the same hospital where Boris Karloff died
Bernardine Evaristo on crossing the road to avoid her father aged 11
Steve Backshall on being trapped in a rapid for four and a half minutes
Annie Nightingale on being told disc jockeys were husband substitutes
Helen McCrory on being told to live a bit during her drama school audition
How an apprentice jockey told Mark Johnston he never listened to a word he said
Elizabeth Anionwu on riding a scooter to meet her father for the first time
Charles Hazlewood on revealing his childhood sexual abuse for the first time
How Simon Armitage celebrated his Poet Laureate appointment by bouncing on a trampoline
Helena Morrissey on her childhood obsession with earning Brownie badges