Recalling a two-day audience at the home of the great maestro, who has died aged 96 "I am amazed to be still alive. Two hours of medieval torment." Franco Zeffirelli - who has died at the age of 96 - had spent the day having a lumbar injection to treat a sciatic nerve. You could hear the bafflement in his heavily accented English.
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:18PM on June 15, 2019