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 is full of the amazing good humoured selflessness demostrated by so many young people in World War II. Joan had volunteered to serve in the WAAF at 19 and it was during this time that she discovered what would be a life-long enthusiam for ballet. She went on to be deeply involved in the Ballet Association, In this episode she talks to Gerald Dowler about her first encounters with ballet whilst volunteering with the WAAF. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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