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How Derek Jameson's invented war-hero father story collapsed when he did the maths
Peter Scudamore on throwing stones at posts as a child to predict his racing success
Garrison Keillor on riding his bike to the Mississippi River and no one noticing he'd left
How playing the Mozart clarinet quintet helped Alan Hacker recover from paralysis
Ranulph Fiennes on considering jumping off Windsor Bridge during his time at Eton
Conrad Black on taking visitors to see his press hall's million-copy print run
Frances Partridge on losing her faith in a seaside boarding house aged 11
How lying drunk in an Innsbruck field gave Douglas Adams his Hitchhiker's idea
Cicely Saunders on the patient who thanked her for telling him he was dying
Willy Russell on the woman who told him the same story every week for two years
How hearing the Turangalîla symphony in a lift convinced Harrison Birtwistle to become a composer
Oliver Sacks on a patient who thought songs from the 1970s were music from the future
Shirley Anne Field on wiping off her make-up to land her role in The Entertainer
How a blind date at a university ball led Sybil Marshall to the love of her life
Raymond Seitz on the bartender more astonished than him by a White House call
Virginia Bottomley on being told she didn't enjoy being a child
How a request to paint fingernails on a Paris flight led Peter Palumbo to his wife
Paul Merton on conducting the Joe Loss Orchestra with a knitting needle aged two
Isabel Allende on her family playing the roles from The House of the Spirits