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Bob Champion on watching the Grand National on the Pathé News aged nine
Bob Hoskins on landing a lead role while accompanying a mate to an audition
Claus Moser on watching Hitler's torchlight procession from his window
Michael Foot on the radiogram that brought Mozart into his flat
How a novice master warned Trevor Huddleston he would miss children
Salman Rushdie on the triple whammy of being bad at games, good at studies, and foreign
Peter Donohoe on putting his hands under his armpits in a 70mph car crash
Hugh Trevor-Roper on being ordered to investigate Hitler's disappearance
How a photograph of Roald Dahl's nieces convinced Patricia Neal to marry him
Ian Paisley on his calling to preach while using a harrow with two horses at age 15
Joan Turner on her nervous breakdown from juggling home, husband, and career
Lord Armstrong on going to Buckingham Palace with Heath to resign and returning with Wilson
Edna Everage on hiding behind the curtains and pretending to be the wireless
David Essex on the music from a Soho basement that felt like a star over Bethlehem
How bumping his head on the ceiling made Jeremy Isaacs dizzy with opera
Douglas Hurd on a coronation bonfire and a wife's knickers caught in the wire
Anton Mosimann on the banquet where all 500 puff pastry soups collapsed
Anita Roddick on being turned down by a bank in a Bob Dylan t-shirt with her babies
Rowan Atkinson on improvising in front of a mirror to create his first characters
Arthur Scargill on learning sign language in three weeks down the pit
Brendan Foster on breaking the world record at the opening of Gateshead Stadium
William Davis on seeing death and destruction at age ten in wartime Germany
Miss Bluebell on hiding her husband in an attic for two and a half years in Nazi-occupied Paris