Today we’re handing The Daily T over to The Telegraph’s legendary interviewer, Mick Brown.

In the course of a long career in journalism Mick Brown has interviewed many of the most significant cultural figures of the past 50 years - and he kept the tapes. In the first of an occasional series he delves into his archive to bring you interviews with Stephen Sondheim, David Bowie, and many more.

In this first episode he remembers meeting the man who reinvented the musical Stephen Sondheim in New York in 2010. In this conversation they discussed his long and storied career, his tempestuous upbringing, his tutelage under the beady eye of Oscar Hammerstein, what makes a musical great. In moments of rare candour, Sondheim also spoke of his time in therapy, his anxieties about ageing - and did his best to skirt the subject of love...

Read Mick's original interview with Sondheim here: Still cutting it at 80: Stephen Sondheim interview

Music

Mitzi Gaynor sings "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair" from the 1958 film of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific (Magna, 20th Century-Fox)

Richard Rodgers (Composer) and Oscar Hammerstein II (Lyricist)

Gloria Grahame sings "I Can't Say No" from the 1955 film of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (Magna, RKO)

Richard Rodgers (Composer) and Oscar Hammerstein II (Lyricist)

Neil Patrick Harris sings "Being Alive" from the 2011 filmed production of Company with the New York Philharmonic (Screenvision)

Stephen Sondheim

Glynis Johns sings on "Send in the Clowns" from the 1982 broadcast 'That's Singing - The Best of Broadway' (Warner Studios)

Stephen Sondheim

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