During the seventies I became involved with the CND goup in Leicester, and they put on a fundraiser at the University with Ewan and Peggy. I agreed to compere and assumed that all necessary arrangements had been made. Unfortunately, although CND were great people, when it came to organising things, the words "piss-up" and "brewery" immediately spring to mind.

I went onto the stage and then introduced Ewan and Peggy, but then Ewan turned to me and said: "we need the curtains drawn", meaning the front curtain of the stage so that the expanse of the stage behind them wouldn't be visible.

This was a Sunday and I had no idea how the curtains worked, so had to traipse off stage in search of a caretaker, who as anyone who works in educational establishments knows can be elusive. I had to leave the duo on stage during all this. I managed to find a caretaker eventually and had to walk across the stage with a pole with a hook on the end to draw the curtains, and the concert then got under way.