Liam Gallagher
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Digging holes in Manchester in January.
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Father Christmas at a department store. The plaintive sadness of the children’s unrealistic requests was almost unbearable.
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Lucy Worsley
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In my teens, peeling garlic to make pie filling in a butcher’s shop.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2017 source ↗
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For two weeks I worked behind the players’ bar at Bolton Wanderers football club – footballers don’t tip.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 February 2020 source ↗
David Jason
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Scrabbling about under dusty floorboards as an electrician in my early 20s.
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David Hare – he’s always fascinating and funny.
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A case of Chateau Margaux 59.
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Being exquisitely alive.
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In the early 90s, in the Andes, caught in an atrocious storm above 20,000ft with three others. We were all in a very bad way. Some guys close to us perished; we were lucky.
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