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
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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
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
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
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