Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe MP
Ann Widdecombe on taking a risk with an unscripted party conference speech
Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Presenter
749 episodes
Ann Widdecombe on taking a risk with an unscripted party conference speech
James Dyson on welding a giant cyclone and racing home to rip the bag off his vacuum cleaner
Anthony Howard on how friendship with Charles Straitshey changed his politics
How falling off a donkey as a child convinced Richard Dunwoody he was a jockey
Fay Maschler on being caught in disguise as Shirley Bassey by Marco Pierre White
Richard Curtis on the film idea he conceived at a petrol station then threw away
Maria Ewing on thinking her mother's compliment meant she couldn't play the piano
Bill Bryson on waking up in New Hampshire and realising his return to America was a catastrophe
David Shepherd on being told to ‘go and drive a bus’ by the Slade School of Art
Dick Francis on the heartbreaking collapse of Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National
David Hempleman Adams on using a Margaret Thatcher book as toilet paper
Chris De Burgh on not wanting to be a grandfather saying he could have been a great singer
Sybille Bedford on growing potatoes on the lawns while the cellar stayed full of claret
Jack Rosenthal on the game of Consequences that exposed his wartime landlady
David Willcocks on being conducted by Elgar as a ten-year-old choir boy