Meggie Morris

Did your mum tell you much about what her role in the British intelligence was during the war?

That's what they all say, George.

That's true.

How was that?

Why did she speak so many?

And then your father being a major in the British Army, does that mean he kind of fit that stereotype of a very stiff, upper-lipped sort of fellow?

So what was it that made your parents decide to leave that world and come out to Australia?

And so what sort of home did they find once they arrived in Australia?

Where did your family set up home?

Was she angry about that, resentful?

As you describe it, George, all the adults in your life had really had this huge disruption in your life, living through war, leaving their homelands, coming to this totally new place.

What sort of environment did they manage to create for you and your sister?

Do you remember the first time that you heard a piano?

So how did you go from being this little fella sitting under a piano to starting to learn to play one yourself?

And did it immediately feel like a kind of home for you, like a natural fit once you were playing?

As a young boy teenager in the 50s and 60s, was it just classical music that was in your field of attention or were you into pop and rock as well?

Give us some Bill Haley, teenager.

Give us some Bill Haley in the comments, for goodness sake.

So, you know, hearing the music, really immersing yourself in this great classical tradition, were you also writing music?

Because are they two very different things, to hear the way music is created by these great masters and then thinking you're going to give it a go as well?