THIS week, with Malcolm Smith, of the Independent Monitoring Board for prisons, who has been awarded an MBE.
MEMORY: A deep snow drift in the 1940s on the farm I was born on in Staining, near Blackpool. I remember we had to cut pathways across from the house to get the milk. At places it was like walking down a tunnel without a roof.
HOME: A country farm where I lived with my grandparents and my parents.
HOLIDAY: In Edinburgh, where three of my dad's sisters lived. My dad had six sisters and he was the youngest, and the only boy.
SCHOOL: Sheaf Street School, in Bolton. It was a small, friendly school.
TEACHERS: I remember two in particular -- Mrs Ainsworth and Miss Shawcross, who were both very nice.
HERO: Captain Robert Falcon Scott -- Scott of the Antarctic -- and Malcolm Campbell, the land speed and water speed record holder, who I suppose I began to notice because he had the same Christian name as me. I remember going to see one of Donald Campbell's Bluebird boats on display at the Olympia in Blackpool and being able to walk around it.
RECORD: The Best of Peter Sellers. I like his humour.
JOB: I went to sea as a boy and worked in the engine room. I've heard it said it puts an old man's head on a young man's shoulders. It brings you into the real world quite quickly.
CAR: A fairly reliable Humber Hawk. It was quite a big car with leather seats.
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