There are certain events in history that are so significant that everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news: Princess Diana's death; the Kennedy assassination; the fall of the Berlin Wall and so on.
Twenty years ago today was one of the most dramatic of them all - the terrorist-hijacked plane attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York.
I was in a meeting out of town when news started to trickle through. The office only had a radio so it wasn't until I had a lift with a colleague who was staying over in a hotel in London, where the lounge had a big screen television showing the news footage, that the full impact hit home. Three thousand civilians lost their lives that day. An act of war. Life could never be the same again...
Overshadowed forever by the remembrance of this horror, today is the birthday of the sublime soprano Catherine Bott, so here she is with something appropriate for the occasion:
