In case anyone’s interested, apropos of my Men At The Barre post the other day, I found the BBC docu-drama on YouTube - I just put in Dance to Freedom and it came up.
I did see the original but it’s well worth a 2nd watch - the story of the few months leading up to his defection, and what finally triggered his decision.
The young dancer who plays Nureyev is extraordinarily like him.
I can only have been 12, but I still remember vividly the headlines at the time - such a major thing at the height of the Cold War.
Army horses loose on London streets
Last weekend, in Rutland, the first statue in Britain of the late Elizabeth II was unveiled.