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The death last week at the age of 83 of the sublime Lynn Seymour – muse to Ashton and MacMillan, the creator of roles in Romeo and Juliet and A Month in the Country among many others – set me thinking gloomily about the current dearth of ballerinas with her questioning intelligence and free spirit.
<strong>Was this impromptu festival – a farmer’s field in Hampshire that hosted</strong> <strong>comedy talents including</strong> <strong>Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Billy Connolly and Rik Mayall –</strong> <strong>where the first seed of Comic Relief was planted?</strong>