In the Whitby interview with Peta Webb last week, she pointed out that Ralph Vaughan Williams was responsible for providing the tunes for the book of hymns used in many school assemblies, and thus for imprinting traditional tunes on the minds of our generation of schoolchildren. I think this largely explains how I progressed from improvising harmonies under my breath in school assemblies to singing in folk clubs, like a duck taking to water.

Kitty