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Kirsten O'Brien marked British Airways' hundredth anniversary this morning by celebrating the golden era of flight that gripped the nation in the fifties, sixties, seventies.

Marion Perks from Burnham worked as a flight attendant from the sixties to the nineties and joined her to share some stories from her storied career travelling the world with BA.

[On meeting celebrities]

"I think Princess Margaret, and pop stars, I was very lucky to be one of the crew when it was Live Aid, and some of the people that had performed in London got on Concorde and went to play in New York.

"I remembered Barbara Streisand when she was on my passenger list."

[On doing something wrong...}

"I was very new, and we took off out of Newcastle... I went out took a bar order and came back, and then the lovely chief stewardess who will remain nameless said "And where are the glasses?"