Interview with Sheila

[John Bravin]

There is quite a long interview with Sheila in today's Daily Telegraph 
(ooh the irony....). 

It's clearly a trailer for the launch of Margrave of the Marshes, which 
will be serialised from tomorrow in the Sunday Telegraph (ooh even more 
irony...)

Some very touching bits:

In the last years of his life, Sheila says, John was "happier and more 
contented" than she had ever seen him. Her only concern was over his 
health. A year before his death, his Radio 1 programme was shifted, yet 
again, to a later time - 11pm-1am. "He was very tired, and I was worried 
about him. I said: 'I can't believe you're not going to complain.' But 
he said he'd be fine. He was just relieved he was still on the radio."

You can read it on line at

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;jsessionid=TYB2MK1D4SMH5QFIQMFSM5WAVCBQ0JVC?xml=/arts/2005/10/08/bopeel_int08.xml