Professor Peter Hennessy
Peter Hennessy on weeping as the Queen’s coffin passed the cenotaph
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Peter Hennessy on weeping as the Queen’s coffin passed the cenotaph
Biddy Baxter on being told nobody from Durham had ever joined the BBC
Joan Bakewell on the shock of seeing her affair dramatised in Harold Pinter's Betrayal
Penelope Wilton on the warm air from a pantomime stage that made her want to act
David Dimbleby on seeing women dance with knickers on their heads around his father
Eliza Manningham-Buller on the lift ride when she wondered which colleague was a traitor
Raymond Tallis on his father asking why treat old people since everyone dies
Patricia Routledge on the terror of putting her hand on the door handle before every performance
Sybille Bedford on growing potatoes on the lawns while the cellar stayed full of claret
Roy Calne on the collie dog that bounded into an auditorium after a kidney transplant
Christopher Hampton on writing his first play at the age of eight in Egypt
Gillian Shephard on being stuck in a teaching routine she didn't enjoy
Richard Dawkins on comparing God to Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy
Elijah Moshinsky on the night people walked out of his play because the theatre had no centre aisle
Paddy Ashdown on being asked to call himself Captain Jeremy John Durham Ashton
Peter Donohoe on putting his hands under his armpits in a 70mph car crash
Frederick Ashton on being riveted by Anna Pavlova's performance aged 13
Claudio Abbado on deciding to become a conductor at age seven after hearing his first concert at La Scala