What I Wish I'd Known

In his fifties, the Nobel Prize winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse made a shocking discovery that revealed that his childhood was based on secrets and lies. No-one in his family was who he thought they were. Paul discusses his remarkable scientific achievements, his educational triumphs and the importance of failure, and how the unravelling of his own genetic certainties affected his life, his work and his views on nature versus nurture.

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Times’ columnists, Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson spend a morning with Tony Blair, talking TV, politics and parenting. “My father would have been a Brexiteer” he says. He reveals how his father's stroke and his mother’s death shaped the person he became, his own political approach, and the family he and Cherie created.

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Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson talk to outstanding people about the traumatic events in their early life, and the effect it had on their drive to succeed. Guests in the first series include Tony Blair, Lemn Sissay and Kirstie Allsopp

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