Launch Pad

As part of our ‘Earliest Memory’ series, Chris Anderson spoke with Cameron Schwarz about his unique view of the world.

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“They’re all mistakes, children! Filthy, nasty things. Glad I never was one.” – Agatha Trunchbull, Matilda (Roald Dahl)

Were you a child? Alexina Coad was, and Justin McArthur spoke to her about the experience – specifically, experiences with family, horses and boots!

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Imagine being 4 years old and having to move from Australia to Northern Ireland, where you don’t understand your school friends or grandparents talk. This is what it was like for Karl Rysbergen.

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Being a child can be fun, but also very embarassing… As part of our “My earliest memory” series, Rupert Hogan-Turner told Edilene Lopes do Carmo a funny story from his childhood involving chickens and Italian culture…

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For many of us, the world of fantasy and the make believe characters we made friends with as children are long lost, believed to be left behind in our childhood with finger paints and stuffed toys.

 But as we found out, those characters and stories can still linger in adult life.

Justin tells Ali about how the books he read in his childhood have influenced him today in our series, My Earliest Memory.

How well do you remember your first memory? Edi Lopes do Carmo reminisces with Rupert Hogan-Turner about her upbringing in tropical Brazil and her earliest memory of a bright yellow flower.

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 A near death experience is something you’re not likely to forget, but if it happened to you as a baby you wouldn’t even remember it.

Don Balaz explains to Tim Molineux why his earliest memory is so strongly embedded with feeling.