Neurobiologist Professor Colin Blakemore was brought up in war-devastated Coventry. An only child, he attended the local grammar school, where he was more artist than scientist. Show more

Writer Peter Hitchens returns to Portsmouth, whose naval tradition left a deep impression on him. This was also where his long squabble with his brother, Christopher, took root. Show more

Baroness Shirley Williams returns to her childhood homes in London's Chelsea and the New Forest. Born into privilege in 1930, she traces the roots of a life in politics. Show more

Former Conservative cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken takes Wendy to Dublin to talk about his childhood there, where he remembers his unconventional early home. Show more

Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Ian Paisley Jr returns to the traditional loyalist heartland of East Belfast. Show more

Wendy Robbins revisits the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Shaun Bailey, founder of youth charity My Generation, returns to his tough west London housing estate. Show more

Writer Toby Young, son of Open University founder Lord Young of Dartington, visits his childhood, recalling how grammar school saved him where his progressive education failed. Show more

Jasvinder Sanghera, campaigner against forced marriages, returns to her Sikh childhood in Derby. She ran away from home aged 15, causing a family rift which never fully healed. Show more

Playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah takes Wendy to Southall, west London, to remember his West Indian childhood there in the 1970s. Show more

PR supremo and businesswoman Julia Hobsbawm takes Wendy Robbins to Hampstead and north Wales. The child of Marxist historian Eric, she grew up amid the country's leading thinkers. Show more

TV screenwriter Kay Mellor has lived in Leeds all her life. She returns to the home she grew up in and the one where she started married life and motherhood aged just 16. Show more

Campaigner, author and founder of the women's refuge movement, Erin Pizzey, explores her troubled childhood in post-war Dorset. Show more

Sir William Atkinson, one of the country's best-known super-heads, returns to where his family settled in Battersea, south London, after moving from Jamaica. Show more

Disability campaigner Baroness Jane Campbell takes Wendy back to her childhood home in New Malden, Surrey, where she remembers being dressed up as a Barbie doll. Show more

Biologist and author Professor Steve Jones takes Wendy Robbins back to his childhood in west Wales in the 1950s to uncover the passions that led to his life of scientific discovery. Show more

Entrepreneur Emma Harrison was born in Sheffield in 1964. Her parents embraced the 60s with gusto. She was brought up mainly by her father in a creative and chaotic house. Show more

Terry Waite – Beirut hostage for nearly five years - returns to his childhood in the small Cheshire hamlet of Styal. From 2011. Show more

Recalling a childhood in Glasgow which inspired her to write, the poet takes Wendy Robbins to meet her mum and dad. From August 2007.

The influential history professor returns to Finchley in North London to reminisce with Wendy Robbins about his 1950s childhood.

Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Jacqueline Gold, Chief Executive of the Ann Summers retail chain.