This download is the only extract the BBC has of this edition of Desert Island Disks.

The presenter was Roy Plumley.

Where about to come from?

Beverly, in East Yorkshire.

Now, as a child, did you see Dancing a lot?

No, none whatsoever, because it was the war was on, and I didn't ever see Dancing until I was just about to come to London.

When did you start?

When I was four.

But Dancing about the hat?

According to my mother, yes.

When did you start to take lessons?

When I was four, and I went, baby's class, I suppose, was called it.

At school?

No, it was a proper professional school.

Yes, were there many other boys in the class?

I think there were two of us when we first started, one crowd off pretty quickly.

See, you got all the fat at the annual display?

Yes, literally.

Now, whose idea was it that you should try for a place at the Sadler's Wells Valley School,

or the Royal Valley School, as it is not?

Well, we took examinations for the Royal Academy of Dancing at our local school,

and after grade three, which I passed, with on it, the examiner suggested to my teacher

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