Robert Powell

“I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazon. I have a passion for wilderness, and Siberia is on my list - however, that may be a bri...”

“I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank...”

“The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life o...”

“In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.”

“The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.”

“In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.”

“I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinking this was the first person I would willingly die for. I had the same strong feelings when...”