2. I love the many sources he finds in conversation for his love of dance and for his choreography - Margot Fonteyn in “Giselle”, Merce Cunningham and the teaching of Viola Farber, the cocktail maker at the Savoy, and much more. Nobody in British dance speaks better about dance.

2. Deeply stirring and fascinating, with urgent feeling underlying David Runciman’s seemingly calm delivery.

2. As always, it’s a great pleasure to speak to these two dance devotees.

Thursday 20 November

2. In particular here, he plays moving and enthusiastic tribute to the founding figures at The Place and of London Contemporary - Robin Howard and Robert Cohan. Tharp himself speaks with exceptional warmth and presence and generosity.

Tuesday 30 September

3. I love also the generosity with which he speaks of his long collaboration with Darcey Bussell - just as I love the affection with which she speaks of him in the introduction.

2. To me, his most important words are about the important of making the classical nineteenth-century ballets tells a story right through every step - a crucial and vital part of Royal Ballet style over the decades, and quite unlike the Soviet tradition.