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Janice: What is fascinating is your family’s allegiance to drawing on Medieval Music.    What are the connections, Gary? Gary:  As young children growing up in the 1950’s, my elder brother Brian and I listened to quite a wide range of music and the earliest musical influences came from what we heard on the BBC Light Programme.  The radio was on from the time we got up in the morning, so we’d get used to hearing anything that was being broadcast.  Mum & Dad also let us have an old radio in our bedroom and we’d lay in bed listening to Radio Luxembourg, who broadcast Pop programmes in the evenings.   Our Grandmother, Milly Thatcher, who lived with the family, loved to sing Music Hall songs, so we learned all the words to ‘Boiled Beef & Carrots’ and ‘I Like Piccalilli’ (among many others) from her.  We were never shy of joining in and think that we gained a lot of confidence from doing that.  Everyone in the family sang along to the radio...