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Ninette de Valois on the moment Margot Fonteyn stood out like a diamond
Paddy Ashdown on being asked to call himself Captain Jeremy John Durham Ashton
Ralf Dahrendorf on being called a social democrat in the Hitler Youth
How Fred Zinnemann's violin playing made his baby brother cry and his dog howl
Adelaide Hall on accidentally inventing scat while humming to Ellington's 'Creole Love Call'
Eduardo Paolozzi on the night his father was taken away and never seen again
Barbara Castle on her mother’s feeding kitchen for miners’ children during the 1920s lockout
Nicholas Snowman on his Cambridge sadness that music might not exist anymore
Barbara Windsor on practising to become a nun with a tea towel over her head
How timing bubbles helped Robin Knox-Johnston navigate when his log failed
Harold Fielding on the contract demand that got him a police car ride with Sinatra
How National Service tore John Biffen from the security of the family farm
Richard Rogers on being beaten at boarding school for failing to remember lines
Ian Trethowan on being told he was not a star by BBC Television boss Hugh Weldon
Michael Tilson Thomas on being told to put his suit on and conduct mid-concert