When Lark Rise was on at the National (must have been 1984) I remember John Tams turning up at our little studio one morning to edit the tapes. As we had just opened, I had no idea how to edit the tape and Phil (my partner in the venture) who knew about stuff like that, drove down from Castleford to serve our first customer.

Anyway Phil is busy there with the new Revox, splicing block and razor blade (how quaint was technology in those far off days!) and Martin Carthy's voice issues out of the speakers......

Bloody hell! says Phil,...... its Walter Gabriel!

That's one customer we didn't see again.