Kirsty Young

How was it for you personally acting out those scripts?

Because some of them are, you know, they're pretty difficult to listen to.

They're, Jack, becoming not just confused and forgetful and repetitive, but abusive and truculent and aggressive.

Let's have some music then.

Tell me about your seventh disc today, June.

And are there any memories you particularly have?

I mean, obviously, it's a terrifically tough discipline when you felt that he'd reached his peak as a dancer.

The Overture to the Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky, and you said, June Spencer, that that brings back wonderful memories of your son David dancing.

He was a very accomplished dancer.

Sadly, he's now dead.

Can you tell me the circumstances of his death?

And he wasn't living in England at that time.

It must have been terrifically difficult for you as a mother at a distance knowing that this was happening to him.

And not just the sadness of a mother, but also being a performer yourself and understanding.

I mean, you're still working at the age of 90.

To see another person who's a performer have the thing that's so dear to them and that they're so skilled at taken away must have been a great pain as well.

And what about your granddaughter Claire?

Claire is in Australia, yes.

You've spent a lot of your time taking care of other people.

It seems incredible that, I mean, first of all, as a teenager, you had to restrict your own life to be with your mother while she felt that she needed you there.