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Betty Boothroyd on being the only person who believed she could win a 20,000 Tory majority
Arnold Weinstock on being sent with a label and gas mask to the wilds of Warwickshire
David Croft on how Jimmy Perry got the idea for Dad's Army from the Home Guard at Buckingham Palace
Ken Livingstone on being greeted by the deputy whip as a horrible little monster
Elijah Moshinsky on the night people walked out of his play because the theatre had no centre aisle
Evelyn Glennie on telling musical intervals by where she feels them in her feet
Ghillean Prance on being marooned in the Amazon for eight days with no food
John Eliot Gardiner on his zany pilgrimage route from Samarkand to Seville
Christabel Bielenberg on ringing the Gestapo and demanding they turn off the lights
Norman Schwarzkopf on his five-year-old son's drawing of a general
Gavin Laird on wealthy families offering to take the dog instead of evacuee children
Juliet Stevenson on reading a poem at age nine that sparked her acting instinct
Bob Geldof on the Live Aid moment he realised people in Shanghai or Tierra del Fuego were watching
How Margaret Thatcher told David Mellor he'd never make a living at the Chancery Bar
How a four-letter word on TV cost Peregrine Worsthorne the Sunday Telegraph editorship