If you had broken a world record or won the Nobel Prize or been crowned Miss World, would you remember that date as 'the best day of your life'?
I felt like a small boy who has just been given the biggest ice-cream in the world ... for the first hour.
Marjorie Lofthouse talks to Professor Maurice Wilkins. joint winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of the DNA double helix.
Producer SANCHIA BERG BBC Pebble Mill
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 10.45pm)