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| 0:00.0 | This download is the only extract the BBC has of this edition of Desertine and Disks. |
| 0:06.0 | The presenter was Roy Plumley. |
| 0:08.0 | Amber, where were you born? |
| 0:10.0 | In London. |
| 0:11.0 | Was there any musical tradition in the family? |
| 0:14.0 | None really, no. |
| 0:16.0 | My first initiation into this musical profession was when my father brought in a fellow that was |
| 0:22.0 | fiddling in the street to give me my first violin lesson. |
| 0:26.0 | How old were you then? |
| 0:28.0 | Between six and seven. |
| 0:29.0 | When did you decide that music was to be your career? |
| 0:32.0 | Well really, my father decided that he made a deal with me that he'd give me a show in |
| 0:37.0 | for every hour. |
| 0:38.0 | So you were a professional right from the start? |
| 0:40.0 | Immediately. |
| 0:41.0 | What was your very first job? |
| 0:43.0 | My first job was in New York. |
| 0:45.0 | What were you doing there? |
| 0:46.0 | Well, I was sent there. |
| 0:48.0 | Mother became very nervous when we had the first Zeppelin during the first wars. |
| 0:52.0 | I was sent off to my aunt in New York. |
| 0:55.0 | So that was where you had your first job? |
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