Ronald Harwood
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Having a heart attack two days after my wife’s funeral.
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On a flight, last February, from Atlanta to Rio. We went through a storm and I was convinced that the plane was going down. The overhead cabins were opening, everything was falling out, people were screaming and I was hanging on to my seat.
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Bruce Dickinson
English heavy metal singer
I’ve been asleep at the wheel on the M11, had an engine fire over the Atlantic in a light aircraft, driven unprotected through an enemy firing zone to do a gig in wartime Sarajevo – the list goes on and on. But I did have stage 3 throat cancer and was cured by some fantastic UK medics.
Julie Hesmondhalgh
English actress and narrator
Childbirth. And the wheel of our camper van coming clean off on the M1.
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When Sean Connery died. He was a big tennis fan – a big Andy fan – and I met him a few times.
Getting my teeth done. I had veneers and it took 18 months.
When I was 17, I was offered a tennis scholarship at the University of Virginia. I wish I had been brave enough to take it.
That Scottish tennis has failed to capitalise on the successes of Jamie and Andy.
Firm, fair, fun.
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