The ballet writer Gerald Dowler is joined in a special episode of Voices of British Ballet by Monica Mason (former Royal Ballet student, principal dancer and director), Jane Pritchard (curator…

Joan Seaman gives us a wonderful bird’s eye view of VE Day, which she spent seeing Sadler’s Wells Ballet stars Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann dance Coppélia, and her interview…

Pauline Clayden was born in 1922. Here she talks to Patricia Linton about her student days, and moves on to her dancing life up until joining the Sadler’s Wells Ballet…

Jean Bedells talks about the 1930s as if it was yesterday. Full of detail and feats of memory, we are given an idea of the sense of foreboding that descended…

Patricia Clover gives the merest hint of the thinking behind Les Ballets Nègres, the company that lasted from 1946 until 1952. Her excellent memory and matter of fact style almost…