Lost Desert Island Discs: Collector finds more than 90 missing recordings
Bing Crosby, Margot Fonteyn, James Stewart among the interviews that have been found and restored. …
With World War Two still casting a long shadow, she describes being on tour in the Netherlands in 1940 when she saw the German army “landing by parachute”. The ballet company “left hurriedly in what we were wearing and what we could wear on top of our ordinary clothes”, abandoning scenery, costumes, music, “everything else”.