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PEOPLE Saturday June 19 1982 5 Pop music's milk run eimtf He nwk JJoflnim's off 4kn ttiAm In in others at them in -hmmm nlwia At 10 Via ami nicer." At 16 he seem sought I envy a way. "I showed each girl her pictures and made it quite clear that if she didn't like them, I wouldn't use them and she could have the negatives. This did happen with one girl but when she saw all the others she changed her mind." John Swannell has carefully avoided anything too sensational. Two pictures have thus been dropped. One was his own decision.

"I thought it was too near the mark." The lesbian mark? "That is in the eye of the beholder. I think of them as Lines every detail fretted over to join this world as a messenger with a picture agency. All the while he took snaps, and dreamed of Vogue. Eventually he joined the magazine as a storeroom assistant, keeping the props in order for David Bailey and others. David and I got on really well and he asked me to become his assistant.

For the next four years I had an invaluable training." Night school provided nothing. He lasted two weeks. "They made me keep taking photographs of a brick. I thought that was pretty useless since all I wanted to do was take pictures of birds." That he still wants to do, although recently he acquired a large format camera and discovered the delights of Wales and land-scape photography. All those lovely long shadows.

Watch out sheep. THOMAS simply sensuous and sensit ive." And the other was rejected by the publisher. It showed a naked woman on a cross. "The cross is such a wonderful image. I love the hard lines fighting the soft curves of the woman's body.

One day I'll do a set of 15 pictures each with a different face and body in the same pose. But I didn't bother arguing for it to be in the book. I didn't want to fight the charges of sensationalism. It's too difficult to explain that I see the cross as the foundation of everything around us, buildings and so forth. It doesn't just belong to Christ." He became camera conscious while at school in North London.

"I wasn't very bright, but I really loved looking at glamorous magazines and pictures of women. It made the world UNTIL recently, 92-year-old Madoline Thomas used to walk the two miles to work at the National Theatre. Then, after a full day rehearsing the part of the nurse in Uncle Vanya, she would walk the two miles back to her flat near the Oval, where she lives alone. Madoline, known to everybody at the National as Our Maddy," thought nothing of it she was brought up to tramp the hills around her Abergavenny home. But when the National's director, Sir Peter Hall, heard that Britain's oldest working stage actress was walking the streets of London at night, he ordered a car to be put at her disposal.

She now rides to and from work in a taxi. Maddy is a small but by no means frail figure, whose relaxed and chatty manner belies a surprisingly nervous person underneath. I've suffered agonies over this play. I'm more shy of my fellow actors than I am of an audience." None of this comes across in her performance in Uncle Vanya, for which she has received good notices. Her deep, clear voice, with hardly a trace of Welsh accent, is one of the strongest in the cast.

The only indication one might get that her age roughly equals those of the two male leads put together is that one of the cast A National legend from the camera. One girl has her hand on the other's bum. Olympus, the camera people, put the picture in an exhibition. Pretty Polly, the stocking makers, saw it and used a lightly clothed version to sell their product. He has also sold 23 copies of the original for 100 each the price for the remaining 27 has shot up to 250.

And now the lovely legs are to be seen on Fine Lines' cover. "It is witty and amusing isn't it So are some of the other 62 pictures in the book. But the overall effect is provocative. It will arouse when they thought they should be feeling awful. "The book is a catalogue of the most ghastly hardships; but everyone interviewed spoke of pride and power and self-knowledge.

No one had ever told me that single parenthood could be joyful. The images accessible The sweet joys of? splitting up ITZtN remarried Whizzlrid for Newsweek made us their biggest bene factor. I'm not interested in big profits for the farm we don't want a bigger tractor, or a Mercedes car. It's strange how it all comes together, through the music. I found the music and the philosophy of the sixties seemed to suit my personality Dylan, even Donovan, remember how nice the music was then "I 'found the people who liked the same music seemed to agree on the same things like ecology, and not using chemical sprays, and peace.

This year there are musicians of that era like Richie Havens, Van Morrison, Jackson Browne, and some of the younger reggae groups like Aswad and Black Uhuru." Gone this year is the wooden cow shed which used to form the stage, and in its place the local authority has authorised a spectacular aluminium structure which would look equally at home at Jodrell Bank. For the rest of the year it will house hay. the tender age of threejand-a-half. She put on her hat and coat and went down to the church to pray," she recalls gleefully. One of her mother's 17 sisters was also an actress and the stage-struck Madoline had to be smuggled up to London by an obliging aunt.

When her mother found out, she sent her to bed without any supper. Later, when Maddy left school at 16, her father persuaded her to get a qualification in case she turned out to be a theatrical failure; he was secretly hoping she would change her mind about the stage. She duly got a music degree, but went on to become a professional singer and actress. Now, after a life of working with major theatre companies around the country, including four years with the Royal Shakespeare Company and a season with the National, she is back on the South Bank, where she is something of a legend. She talks of retiring and going to live near her son in the West Country.

If she did finally bow out, she agrees she would miss the theatre but would be quite content teaching music and helping to look after her four great-grandchildren. I've thought of retiring for a long time," she said. "But tempting offers keep coming up." of plain cake and buns. It is also not surprising to learn that there are two noble lords who insist on keeping their hats on at dinner. JUNE 24: For the first time during the nearly eight years of his episcopate the Bishop of Birmingham (Dr Barnes) held a visitation.

He urged his hearers to banish from their minds the suggestion that, the present decay of faith was due to the persistent preaching of Communist secularism subsidised by Russia. Were such its origin, we could ignore it. But the fact was that not only in this country but throughout Western civilisation an atmosphere had been created in which Christian teaching seemed neither true nor useful. This atmosphere permeated such centres of culture as the universities of Europe and America. It derived strength from a feeling that in the churches intellectual incompetence was associated with spiritual insincerity.

BIRTHDAYS TODAY: the Duchess of Windsor, 86; Sir Donald Albery, impresario. 68; Char-lie Drake, comedian, 57; Louis Jourdan, French film actor, 61; Bryan Kneale, sculptor, 52. TOMORROW Wally Fawkes, cartoonist, 58; Alan Fisher, retiring general secretary. National Union of Public Employees, 60; Lillian Hell-man, US playwright, whose The Little Foxes is in the last three weeks of its Victoria Palace run, 75. MONDAY: Gerald Kaufman, Rt Hon, MP (Lab, Manchester.

Ardwick), principal Opposition environment spokesman, 52; Mary McCarthy, US novelist, journalist, 70; Francois Sagan (Francois Quoirez), French novelist. 47; Don Black, Oscar-winning songwriter, 44, TUESDAY Lord (John) Hunt, soldier, Everest conqueror, 72; Krlstofferson, US singer, actor, 46; Joe Loss (Joshua Alexander), perennial dance band leader, 73; Sir Peter Pears, tenor, an artistic director of the current Aldeburgh Festival, 72; Dame Cicely Saunders, medical director, St Christopher's Hospice, 64. WEDNESDAY: Adam Faith (Terence Nelhams), pop singer, actor, 42; Henry Chadwick, regius professor, divinity, Cambridge; professorial fellow, Magdalene, 62; the Rt Rev John Habgood, Bishop of Durham, 55; Sir Leonard Hutton, cricketer, former England, Yorkshire, 66; Teddy Tinling, tennis ladies designer, 72; Irene Worth, Nebraska-born actress, 66. THURSDAY: Prof. Sir Fred Hoyle, astronmer, 67 Brian Johnston, Eton, New Collegei Grenadier Guards (MC), most bonhomous of the cricket commentators, 70; Lord (William) Penney, QM, atomic scientist, 73; Betty Stove, tennis player, 37.

FRIDAY Cyril Fletcher, comedian of odd odes, 69; Sidney Lumet, US film director, 58; Carly Simon, US singer, 37. FOR 51 weeks of the year Michael Eavis is a dairy farmer with 80 Frleslans in Somerset For the week of the midsummer solstice he holds the Glastonbury Festival on his land at Worthy Farm, Pilton three days of rock music and laser shows dn support of CND. He is a warm and enthusiastic man of 46, with a beard that gives him something of the look of a garden gnome. My family has been farming around here for about 200 years," he explains, "but the festival makes a sweet change from milking. "I never really found pig shows absorbing.

My wife and I went to a rock festival and we loved it. We thought maybe we could do the same. So we began in 1971, and the early festivals were free, and pretty chaotic really. One year was punk, and one an event for the Year of the Child. But last year was the first year we made a real profit, and we handed over 20,000 to CND, which has in Uncle Vanya tempting offers she said.

"But he shouldn't be encouraged." The fact that Maddy is still working is typical of the gritty sense of independence she has shown throughout her life. At the turn of the century, acting was still regarded as a disreputable profession for a young woman, and she claims one of the reasons she took her first job with a touring company was precisely because her parents disapproved. She appalled her mother by announcing her intentions at MANCHESTER GUARDIAN 1932 JUNE 20: While the Home Office is doubtful whether it is patriotic to allow English audiences the pleasure of listening to foreign musicians, the Soviet Government has just given its sanction to Mr Jack Hylton and his band to make a six weeks' tour of Russia, where they will regale commissars and moujiks with the latest compositions of British dance-music composers. Russian comments on such a tune as "He played his ukelele as the ship went doyn should be worth preserving. JUNE 23: Herbert Sutcliffe at Leeds yesterday, in the match between Yorkshire and Sussex, followed up his great score of 313 against Essex at Leyton and his innings of 96 and 110 not out for the North against the South at Old Trafford with 258 not out, and brought his aggregate for four consecutive innings to 777.

With these scores Sutcliffe has beaten the record of C. G. Macartney, the famous Australian, who is successive innings in 1921 made 105 against Hampshire, 193 against Northants, 345 against Notts, and 115 at Leeds against England, or 758 runs in all. In two of his four innings Sutcliffe has been not out, and when he made 313 at Leyton he gave his wicket away as soon as the record for the first-wicket partnership had been broken. JUNE 23: There is joy in Luton today over the news that the Prince of Wales wore a boater at Shrewsbury.

This is what the straw hat makers have been waiting to hear for years. It is one more illustration of the extraordinary influence of the Prince's choice in things to wear that he has set a fashion in a night. It is true that he wore a boater in Argentina, but Argentina is not Shrewsbury. The decline of the straw hat in recent years has been steady and the cause of unemployment. Indeed, the British straw hat industry has become moribund.

Some authorities put it all down to the refusal of the English climate to produce more than a few days' real summer every year. JUNE 24: a touching tribute to the simple tastes of our peers has been paid today in an interview by Mr R. C. Vaughan, who is about to resign from the post of controller of the refreshment department of the House of Lords. One does not know whether the vegetarian movement has many adherents among the peers, but Mr Vaughan assures us that most of them "eat practically no meat." They like the plainest of fare (it might be tentatively suggested that this is all they can afford now); at all events, such homely dishes as sausage and mashed and cottage pie figure steadily on the House of Lords menu.

Tea, as one might expect, the peers like to be served in the old-fashiosed way with plenty lust in some, anger and consideraDie aamirauon from anyone who fancies their chances with a Pentax. For a worrier, John Swannell is not concerned about possible feminist anger. He artlessly denies charges of exploitation. "I'd feel hurt if anyone suggest that. I love the images too much and the girls in the images to want to exploit them.

All teh girls readily agreed to work with me on the book. Why? Vanity, I suppose. As they get older they will have beautiful pictures of themselves to look From John Swannell's book Fine in literature and research are the downbeat ones. "Divorced, I went back to the state I was in before I married. I had got plump now I have lost three stone.

Wailing for my daughter at the school gates, if I saw a woman who looked really happy and beautiful I thought 'There goes a single parent Respnn.se to Splitting Up, from single parents and from critics, was so positive that Catherine felt she had to spread the word further in a play. Ever After, written with Ann Mitchell opens at the Tricycle Theatre in Kil-burn next week. By single," Catherine tends to mean divorced, rather than bereaved or unmarried, parents. Divorce makes you question the marriage relationship." And Ever After is as much about relationships as about children. "People want long-term loving relationships.

People want Children. Given all this, how can they organise and structure their relationships to accommodate these needs? The book asked this question, but didn't try to answer it. The play attempts to find some answers. "I'm basically against marriage, but it is one ot the very few ways available of living as a couple." All six main characters in. her play are divorced; one, in the course of the play, decides to remarry.

So Catherine Itzin less than a month ago. Despite her reservations about marriage it was, she stresses, a very positive decision. People is compiled by Linda Christmas JOHN SWANNELL is a seri ous young man who worries a lot and says "You know what I mean" too often. That's one of the things that worries him. He reckons he's not very articulate.

But it isn't important. He says what he wants to say, most eloquently, through the camera lens. His pictures are of beautiful women, clothed, for fashion magazines and advertisements. This week, however, he goes nude in a big, glossy book called Fine Lines. It's taken him three years and he's fretted over every last detail down to the position of the page numbers they are hidden towards the fold.

Publication was delayed while 15 pictures were reprinted. It all started when he asked two girl friends to pose for fun. The result was a shot of two girls in cutaway leotards walking away Why grain stops hay ANYONE WHO has stumbled across stencilled sacks ot grain in unlikely places knows that something is rotten in the state of food aid to the Third World. The difficulty is proving it. Now Tony Jackson has blown the whistle in his Oxfam survey Against the Grain, published last week.

"If I was in charge of EEC food aid I''l cut it by 75 per cent," he says. Jackson, 36, Oxfam's food aid consultant, learned the lesson in the aftermath of the 1976 earthquake in Gua-tamala. when an avalanche od food undermined local farmers and did little to help the task of reconstruction. After talking to other field workers he realised that the counter-productivity of food aid was world-wide. "I have yet to hear peasant farmers asking for food," he explains.

"They are interested in medium term problems like credit and storage of their produce. Hand-outs of food merely demoralise them and disrupt the local economy." The world, he insists, is not a vast refugee camp full of people with their hands out. It's full of people trying to grow their own food." He blames the three principal food aid agencies the UN's World Food Programme and America's CARE and CRS for perpetuating this view. "Food aid began as an emergency measure, but now agencies have become completely institutionalised huge bureaucracies which rely on food to solve a large part of the problem. Subsidised food provides governments with an excuse for bad agricultural polices.

No one has questioned this fossilised approach for the last 30 years." Jackson does not dispute the need for emergency food aid, representing only 10 per cent of the total, although he says many field workers question the means and speed of its distribution. He is concerned with the insidious effects of much larger consignments, which frequently get into the wrong hands. He would scrap most of them in favour of a cash system which supported local projects and economies. "The important thing now is to get a concensus," he says. These programmes look good on paper, but the evidence shows they don't work.

I hope a lot of questions will be asked, particularly in the US." A MEETING with Catherine Itzin ought to be compulsory for any divorced woman bringing up a family alone. She instantly dispels the doom-laden, problem-ridden image to which we have grown accustomed. "When my own marriage broke up, leaving me with two young children, I found that I was monumentally vulnerable both economically and emotionally. But in spite of immense difficulties, within a year I was absolutely blooming as a person." Ms Itzin, a former drama critic and founder of Theatre Quarterly has found several ways of passing on the trick to others. It all started with an unsuccessful but much publicised appeal to the Inland Revenue.

My accountant asked for a list of my expenses and I quite naively put down child-minding." She was told that such an expense was not tax-deductible. She appealed to the Special Commissioners in the autumn of 1978; the case failed, and Catherine could not afford to pursue it through the courts. She won massive support, however, and published a pamphlet. Tax Law and Childcare, the Case for Reform. The experience broucht commitment to every aspect of single parenthood.

A book followed. Splitting Up: Single Parent Liberation. This was hased on interviews with men and women about their marriages and their new lives as single parents. Time and again Catherine found people with her own conflict feeling good usually lends her an arm when she makes an exit. Everyone in the company knows Maddy was hospitalised with a broken thigh two years ago after being knocked down by a motorbike, but there were no special concessions when it came to the rehearsal schedule.

But she does admit she found it hard to learn her lines, although she blames this partly on Chekhov, whose characters are given to long philosophical ramblings. "Chekhov is very clever," BROYLES formidable task for his efforts. He then went off to Oxford for a second degree and embarked on teaching philosophy and government to naval cadets at Annapolis. That seemed to lack what he was seeking so he switched to journalism, working for the Houston Post and the Economist He faces a formidable task at Newsweek, which has not been a happy ship in recent years. A series of faltering editorial judgments has seen its over-the-counter sales dropping.

The cover story can be all-important here, since it governs impulse buying at airports and similar outlets. The last editor-but-one vanished after he decided to feature a hit film the week the Pope died. The current editor raised many eyebrows with the April 12 issue he opted for a cover story based on shaky reports that Brezhnev was dying. the castle Both books were written while the Fords were still at Chilham Castle, saving to start their own school. We looked as far as South Wales for a place, only to find one 10 miles away a modern house with two acres.

We can fly over neighbouring common land, and local farmers are being most Courses, costing 90 a week if you live in and 60 if you don't, are already booked months ahead. It's a sport it's all about hunting. The birds catch rabbits, moorhens, pheasants and partridges in season. They are not pets. I do get attached to them and have better relationships with some than with others.

But the birds are never affectionate they don't give the loyalty and trust of a dog because they don't have the desire to please." THE EDITORIAL roller coaster continues at Newsweek, with William Broyles picked as its fifth editor-in-chief in the past decade. At 37, he has obviously been chosen for his whizzkid ways with magazines. Ten years ago he helped found the Texas Monthly in his native Houston and assumed the editorial chair. Against the odds, he made it lively, controversial, and considerable commercial success. He is a political centrist, but that is to be more of an oddball in Texas Mian it sounds it's worth recalling that John Connally, who started his political career as a Texas Democrat, challenged Ronald Reagan for the 1980 Republican nomination by coming at him from the Right.

With a mixture of big, well-researched exposes and lively colour pieces, Broyles kept the circulation of Texas Monthly growing and the cash pouring in. Tow years ago, his company was able to buy New West Magazine. Renamed California, it quickly grabbed the attention of the hot-tup set with a lurid cover story on forthcoming earthquakes. Broyles has managed to pack a lot into his 37 years. After graduating from Rice University in Houston, he a stint as an army officer in Vietnam, and was decorated moved into the castle.

He'd flown birds since he was 12. Three years later they married and when the falconer left, Steve took over the job. "The year we married, Sheikh Zaid of Abu Dhabi invited me to see his collection, and this started my interest in falconry around the world." It also started her interest in writing a book. Falconry in Mews and Fields, a lavishly illustrated number, will be published next month. "Until now most of the available books were reprints of old titles and so much has changed with captive breedings, and the application of new technology." Husband Steve provided many of the line drawings, and for those who don't want the 15 definitive instruction manual, Batsford are next week issuing a shortened paperback version, called Birds of Prey.

Something eyrie in AT THE British School of Falconry which opened this year near Canterbury, you'll find the boss, aged 20, in the kitchen chopping up the legs of day old chicks. Flinchmak-ing. But nice for the four-day-old spotted eagle owl fledglings. Their favourite meal. As Emma Ford feeds the owls too tiny to open their eyes, she makes tweeting noises to imitate a bird mother and imprint the human voice.

AH training is centred around food. If it hadn't been for the man next door Emma Ford may well have been battling with barristers briefs rather than babying birds. She was only eight when she discovered that she lived next door to Chilham Castle's falconer. They became friends and he taught her much. When she was 14, a young man of 19 called Steve FORD they are never affectionate.