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Howard Jacobson reflects on summer festivals, conformity and a dancing cockatoo.

Howard Jacobson on summer music festivals, authoritarianism and a dancing cockatoo.

From boyhood, through young adulthood, to the present day, Howard Jacobson ponders his relationship with dancing.

As summer festivals get underway across the UK, Howard tries to understand the attraction.

'I didn’t dance to Paul McCartney in the 60s, and I’m not going to start now... dancing isn’t what I do,' he says. 

Producer: Adele Armstrong 
Sound: Peter Bosher 
Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

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