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You're listening to a download of soul music from BBC Radio 4.

My mum, she was a devotee of a pianist called Gerald Moore,

and then it was announced that he was going to retire.

And this announcement said, Gerald Moore is going to accompany Schubert's divinterizer

for the very last time before his retirement.

Now, I was at school at this stage, I suppose, in my kind of late teens, and really still not awake to music at all.

But I thought, well, in honour of my mother, I'm going to go and just see what this is all about.

And the concert was on a Sunday afternoon.

So one had a bit of free time, but it was a boarding school, and we had to wear a tailcoat and striped trousers and a black tie. But I calculated that I could escape for the afternoon. And, you know, you weren't supposed to do this. You weren't supposed to get on a train or a car or whatever it was and go into

London, let alone go to a classical concert. But I must have been crazy. I did. And all went very

well. Until after the thing was all over, I was standing in the gents, and suddenly I found my horror

that standing next to me in the gents in the Wigmore Hall

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