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S16, Ep8 How To Fail: Joan Bakewell - the legendary broadcaster on life, love and everything in between

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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A Network of Satisfactions

I remember the air raid shelter in the garden, which my father dug early in 1939. It was a metal corrugated iron with earth on top and the staircase down. And it was full of spiders - we were meant to go to sleep with all these spiders. The other thing I remember is Manchester burning. John Peel, the DJ, always remembers that happened to him in Liverpool. So we saw these great cities being blitzed by German bombers. And you don't forget that.

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