And in June 1948, helped by our many friends, the first Albra Festival was launched.

But that first festival, when you look at it in the programme books, it's got something of the element of a village fate about it.

E.M. Forster's talking about the novel, but he's doing it in the Baptist Chapel, and Yehudi Menuhin's here, but he's performing in the Jubilee Hall, or they're...

I think the very first festival event takes place in Oldborough Parish Church, which has always been a very powerful part of the festival.

And so it's stellar, but at the same time, it's very, very local.

And I'd like to think that if world-class stuff happening, but it really matters that it's happening here and happening in this very specific and really quite small location on the Suffolk coast.

I think one of the things that really captures the essence of the festival for me is about 10 years in, it's the programme to the 1958 festival.

The fact that his private life could remain private at a time when other men were getting arrested says a lot.