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Brenda Hale on why she wore a spider brooch for the prorogation judgment
Stephen Hough on being mugged and then approached by a sinister stranger
David Edgar on the night before his wife died when she said 'I do have a right to my anger'
John Rutter on the out-of-tune upright piano that opened a world of magic at age three
David Hope on following the stations of the cross in Notre Dame before a press conference
Gillian Shephard on being stuck in a teaching routine she didn't enjoy
How lying drunk in an Innsbruck field gave Douglas Adams his Hitchhiker's idea
Oliver Sacks on a patient who thought songs from the 1970s were music from the future
Thomas Armstrong on singing for Queen Alexandra as a nine-year-old chorister
Robert Runcie on turning back to rescue a crewmate from a burning tank
Lord Armstrong on going to Buckingham Palace with Heath to resign and returning with Wilson
Nicholas Goodison on buying a cheap barometer that led to writing the standard reference book
David Wilson on taking his coat off at his British Museum interview
Amadeus String Quartet on their debut concert that turned people away
Kenneth McKellar on leaving forestry for a singing scholarship at the Royal College of Music
Peter Pears on his first concert with Benjamin Britten for Spanish Republican funds
Malcolm Sargent on being stranded on a Pacific island after a plane crash