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Back to SearchCarl Djerassi
Carl Djerassi was born in Vienna to an Austrian mother and Bulgarian father. Both parents were involved in the medical profession and, growing up sur…
23 years, 5 months ago
Paul Gambaccini
Paul Gambaccini was born in New York City in 1949 and revelled growing up to the sounds of the 1960s. He loved listening to the radio and chose to go…
23 years, 5 months ago
Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman is the author of the celebrated His Dark Materials trilogy: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. He was born in N…
23 years, 5 months ago
Dame Alicia Markova
Dame Alicia Markova was born Lilian Alice Marks in December 1910, in a two-bedroom flat in Finsbury Park, London. She began ballet classes because sh…
23 years, 6 months ago
Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall grew up in Battersea, South London. He found school pretty uninspiring and left with art as his only qualification. However, when he pl…
23 years, 6 months ago
Brian May
Brian May spent his childhood in Feltham near London and he learnt his first chords on his father's ukelele banjo. He soon progressed to the guitar, …
23 years, 6 months ago
Alan Titchmarsh
Alan Titchmarsh was drawn to gardening from an early age in Ilkley, Yorkshire, making his first polythene greenhouse at the age of twelve and decidin…
23 years, 8 months ago
Minette Walters
After Minette Walters' father died of injuries sustained in World War II she won a scholarship to Godolphin School, and eventually became Head Girl. …
23 years, 9 months ago
Countess Elizabeth Longford
Elizabeth Harman was born in London in 1906. Her parents were both doctors, her mother was the niece of Joseph Chamberlain and cousin of Neville Cham…
23 years, 9 months ago
Jan Morris
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Jan Morris.
23 years, 9 months ago