Jane Asher
English actress and author
The early family skiing holidays – before I’d broken an ankle and Gerald had torn a ligament – were just wonderful.
When were you happiest?
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One of the big moments was the birth of our son, Jack – he's 13 now.
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Courtney Pine
British jazz musician
When I realised that I could be a musician. I was 16.
Rose Tremain
English writer
When I first met Richard, in 1992, on a British Council writers’ tour of Adelaide. We were drinking Australian lager while parakeets squawked rudely in the neighbourhood gumtrees.
Simon Russell Beale
English actor
The morning after the opening of Hamlet in New York in 2000. The reviews were good and I actually punched the air – a very un-Simon Russell Beale thing to do.
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