He thanked her and asked her to sit with him whilst he explained his plans for the whole Sundance plan. She came back to me some 30 mins later and commented what a nice man he was and he was something to do with acting...

I must explain that my wife doesn't do movies, so she had no idea who he was.

My favourite story is when my wife and I went for breakfast to Redford's restaurant in Sundance, Utah, and it was so good that my wife asked the waitress to compliment the owner on what was the finest restaurant in Utah.

It's a magpie.

So I got the words and her glasses and she sang the words a capella in my ear.

Unfortunately, she panicked as John D started playing and she couldn't remember the words! Unfortunately, she panicked as she could not remember the words.

I progressed from bar helper to studio manager over the years, and my highlight was when Cleo was starting her Christmas show by starting to sing "Chestnuts roasting by an open fire" in the bar, and walking into the concert hall still singing.

The first concert they ran was The Swingle Singers, in the stables of the Wavendon rectory, which they could just squeeze 160 people into, provided the front row were happy to put their feet on the stage.