My sister is three years older and we were always very close and still are, so... and since my mother was 43 when I was born, it was more... my mother was more like a grandmother and my sister was more like a mother. That's also remained true ever since that... the real warmth I had from my sister; the intellectual stimulus I had from my mother. But I remember it was my sister's bed that I crawled into in... when I was feeling lonely at night.

[Q] And your father was a professor of music at Winchester or what...?

Yes, we didn't call him a professor, he was just the... he was in fact the head of the music department, but he was just... the teachers at that school were called dons, so he was just a don like the others and he made £1000 a year. I remember the fact that his salary was £1000, which in those days was a very good salary, but nothing on my uncle who was a lawyer, and made £5000, so we were not at all wealthy as compared with lawyers and doctors.