Terry’s all gold

I left school at 15 and my outlook on life was the same as it is now. I was always a hopeful child if not always a happy one. I was outgoing, sociable, funny, and I was accepted by my peers. All I was

When journalist and author Hunter Davies lost his wife of more than 50 years, the novelist Margaret Forster, he began writing to her instead

It was a 24/7 existence. The phone did not stop ringing. It was like being on Concorde for six years, and I loved it. The speed at which they went from A-Z was incredible. They did the Marquee, then t

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Two years after losing his wife, the presenter, comedian and author Sir Michael Palin tells us how he still feels her comforting presence in their home, and why he’s thankful for the way his family has helped him through the grief

Looking back, it’s funny to think we might have picked berries from the same bush. In the summer of ’59, those blackberries proliferated to the rear of The Bend, the most unlovely corner of an unfashi