Ankur Desai

So he kind of deliberately sat on recordings of the Ronettes.

So after the initial amazing success, they kind of started to fade by the late 60s.

And Nedra did talk about that, didn't she?

Because in the band, it was her and her two cousins, one of whom was Ronnie Spector, of course.

They're both dead now.

But, you know, she did talk about that breakup and why it was so traumatic.

Yeah, she said, I hated the dog-eat-dog side of showbiz and she hated the way that they were pitted against each other.

She also had reservations because she became a Christian and she felt that the Ronettes didn't quite have the Christian-inspired music that she wanted to sing.

But there were so many ways that the group were frustrated and it was mainly through Spectre not releasing their records and kind of really limiting what they could do.

Author and music journalist Lucy O'Brien.

A day on from one of the most famous marathons in the world, it's fair to say some people in the running community are still in shock at what they saw at yesterday's London Marathon.

Kenya's Sebastian Sawe broke a record many had thought impossible and finished the race in under two hours.

It's the first time that's ever been done in a competitive marathon.

Fellow Kenyan and runner Paul Turgat knows a thing or two about long-distance running.

He became the first Kenyan man to set the world record in the marathon back in 2003.

And he's still getting to grips with what took place on the streets of London.

Even though technological advances in running might not be as obvious as, say, Formula One, we're told the tech did still play a part in breaking this record.

Nicholas Smith, an expert on trainers, says the shoes Sebastian Sawe was wearing are at the cutting edge.

A huge moment then for running, but also for Kenya, a nation that has produced some of the best distance runners of all time.

Our correspondent Richard Kargoi in the capital of Nairobi told me how it had gone down there.