Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
Roger BannisterMy family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.
Roger BannisterI enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
Roger Bannister