Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll obituary

Invited to appear on Desert Island Discs in October 1991, Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, who has died aged 85, spoke with the cautious air of one picking her way across ice. Her choices of music were mostly the uninflammatory ones of a woman of culture – a Bach partita, a Beethoven piano sonata – as was that of her non-Bible book (TS... read full story

"The whole period was very difficult indeed for everybody within the museum,"