The first of five programmes this week recalling great musical events and celebrities with the memories of first-hand witnesses and recordings of their music.

Richard Fawkes meets the original Rose Marie - and Ivor Novello's muse - who is 95 this month. She talks about her early career as an opera singer and remembers Geraldine Farrar, who became a close friend, and Enrico Caruso, with whom she was on stage at the Met for his last appearance there in December 1920.
A Ladbroke Radio production
(Next programme tomorrow 9.20pm)