Geoffrey Parsons
Geoffrey Parsons on his childhood Saturday mornings of music lessons and clean sheets
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Geoffrey Parsons on his childhood Saturday mornings of music lessons and clean sheets
Elizabeth Jane Howard on learning about war from a photograph of her father's dead comrades
Wendy Hiller on managing two large parts with only six rehearsals and one dress rehearsal
Geoffrey Jackson on singing at full blast to survive solitary confinement
Elizabeth Harwood on telling Sir Malcolm Sargent she would sing with him one day
Hammond Innes on writing Attack Alarm on a gun site during the Battle of Britain
Michael Parkinson on learning nothing about bottles and a lot about women
Alice Delysia on the scandalous costume that got her in trouble with the censor
Stuart Burrows on Stravinsky asking him to sing Oedipus after a BBC broadcast
Isaac Stern on the friend who inspired his violin playing – and now sells insurance
How David Frost appeared between Jack Benny and Barbara Streisand at a Sinatra farewell
Julia Trevelyan Oman on finding chicken bones while designing Brief Lives
Alfred Brendel on being forced to remove his tails after a piano stool mishap
Vivian Dunn on beating retreat as the sun set over the sea from HMS Vanguard
Caterina Valente on learning English by reading The Hound of the Baskervilles six times
David Shepherd on raising £46,000 in one evening for a poacher-catching helicopter
How lollipops and short trousers greeted Lorin Maazel's first rehearsal at age eight
Joyce Grenfell on receiving an anonymous letter about mocking Cockney accents