Accident Quote by Norman Davies

When I went to the 2007 Europeans with the Under-21s, we were based at Oosterbeek near Arnhem and I went out on my bike…

— Nigel Pearson

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

— Charles Kuralt

I first started going to Kent from the East End, where I was brought up, when I was a very small boy, going with…

— David Essex

Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went…

— Kelly Macdonald

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.

— Vincent Schiavelli

Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.

— David Mitchell

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

— Amanda Harlech

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“I read a lot of travel books before I came here. Fantasised what it would be like. I read Scott’s journal. Those last entries…

— Adam Baker

I love to hear stories about people who got to places where they are today. Those kinds of things are very interesting to me.

— Tasha Smith

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

— Rupert Friend

London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.

— Ruth Rendell