Thirty-five years ago, John Miller gave a talk to the Great Britain - USSR Association about his experiences in the Soviet Union as a foreign correspondent. His book All Them Cornfields and Ballet in the Evening is the story of some of the people and places he visited over some 50 years of involvement with the USSR - now a vanished world. The title is unashamedly stolen from the film I'm Alright Jack, which appeared in 1957. Fred Kite (played by Peter Sellers) is a communist trade-union leader, who is forever acclaiming the Soviet Union as a workers' paradise. Asked if he had been to Russia, Kite/Sellers says wistfully that he hadn't, but he often wanted to because of 'all them cornfields and ballet in the evening'.