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Castaway
1 appearance
Ice skater who won Olympic gold in Sarajevo in 1984 with Christopher Dean.
On the island
Eight records
I think he's got a great natural voice, you know, that he doesn't feel like he's straining to sing.
Queen was my band and Killer Queen when it came out was like this is the best song ever.
Saraband from Cello Suite No. 6
It was a collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma and it was about the movement of skating, the sound captured on film.
I chose this because it was sung at the Olympics and we were lucky to be at the opening ceremony as ambassadors for Team GB.
BoléroFavourite
London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by André Previn
It felt like a dream, as if we were in some kind of hypnotic zone.
Still Crazy After All These Years
Sums us up really. We skated to it and it was our last performance together, an emotional moment.
You know, drums, the rhythm, the percussion. This says it all for me.
We performed Imagine and Revolution as a medley and received a letter from Yoko Ono saying how she enjoyed our interpretation.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:50Is there a boss in your relationship?
I always say that I let Chris think that he's the boss. She's walking me from behind, like a puppet. Yes, like all good women in a relationship that works.
Presenter asks
5:06Jane, how were you the first time you were on an ice rink?
I went with school. There was a school trip organised when I was about nine, and I remember going on there and actually feeling a sense of balance right away. I think I just went tearing around like young kids do. I mean, I'm sure I fell over a few times, but I just found it all fascinating. I loved it.
Presenter asks
6:09Did you always know that what you were pursuing together was far more important than any brief romantic fling?
Yeah, I think that's right, really. When people say, you know, you never got together as a couple off the ice, and we said, you know, we really didn't have time for that or relationships with other people, for that matter, until much later on, because we just had this it was almost unspoken goal that we just wanted to pursue our career. We were quite naïve as well as young people. And honestly, it wasn't about relationships, it was about what we were doing and...
The keepsakes
No book or luxury recorded for this episode.
Presenter asks
14:25When you got together on the ice for the first time, how old were you and what do you remember?
I think sort of fifteen, sixteen, yeah. Early morning, cold, not in the mice ringing. The bells weren't ringing or anything. This is it! This is the one!
Presenter asks
25:53Your dance 'Let's Face the Music and Dance' seemed full of lightness and joy. Was that because you had nothing to prove?
Slightly. It was a difficult time in the end, wasn't it? We were coming back into the skating world, the amateur skating world, having been away. They invited past sort of winners or anybody who turned professional to come back and compete, really to get past winners there and names... From the first competition, the European Championships that we did, we immediately felt that we're not as welcome as we thought. You know, we were all excited to do it. We toured with that routine. We performed it many times, didn't we? Yeah, but there was a lightness about it. Yeah, it was very loose and free and easy.