I remember sharing a lift (as in from floor to floor) with Derek Newark when he came to talk to my OU drama course summer school. I knew – because he told me – that he was in with Pinter. I now know – because I have just watched it thanks to Netflix – that he was in the first ever series of Doctor Who!

I remember being quite excited by the fact that Alan Wheatley used to go to my school. He played the baddie – the Sheriff of Nottingham - in Robin Hood. The television series with the theme song ‘Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen/ Robin Hood,  Robin Hood, with his band of men/ Feared by the bad, Loved by the good/ Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood’ (and I didn’t have to look that up). This was in the Fifties and Alan Wheatley’s role seems to have been the archetype for every bad guy since. And he was also in the first series – in the second storyline - of Doctor Who! The first person to be killed by a Dalek. And he went to my school…

I remember a record shop on Wimbledon Broadway - down where the cinemas used to be, and Gerry’s, the fishing tackle shop. I bought the Shaft soundtrack album by Isaac Hayes there.

I remember Mrs Hufnagel - an amusingly old-fashionedly (is that a word?) racist (am I allowed to express that thought?) character in St Elsewhere.

I remember Charlotte Green, the sexiest voice on Radio 4.

I remember the crappy radio the woman was listening to the Proms on in the vestibule while we were waiting for people to show up for an al-anon meeting. Really poor quality but she was knitting and singing happily along to Jesu Joy Of Man’s Desiring without a care in the world. But I did so want to tune it in.