Kirsty Young

You adopted two children.

And when they were tiny children, before you went back to work, I mean, so many of us as mothers find that we automatically start behaving in the way that our mother behaved to us.

What sort of mother were you?

Did you try to be a different mother from yours?

I mentioned in the introduction that, of course, one of the...

Storylines in recent years in The Archer that has caused a lot of comment and has been very moving for many people to listen to is the situation with your on-air husband of Jack beginning to suffer dementia and then it becoming very, very pronounced.

Your own husband, Roger, who you were with for 59 years in the latter part of your marriage, he developed Alzheimer's.

Can you tell me a little about that?

And the day before, Roger, your husband died, you had a sort of, something of a golden day, did you not?

Yes, yes.

Let's have some music.

Tell me about the next piece of music.

We're on disc number six now, June.

Harry Seacombe and the stars were brightly shining from Puccini's Tosca.

So, June Spencer, as we know, your husband Roger died in 2001, and the following year the decision was made for your on-air husband, Jack, to develop dementia.

What did you think when the script editors told you of their plans?

And you became something of... Is this writer sort of an advisor to the scriptwriters?

They consulted you about various stories?

The storyline has garnered a lot of attention and also awards.

A couple of big awards have come the way of The Archers as a result of tackling such a difficult subject.