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Speaker 1: Jo Jersey and Amanda gam Nation.

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Speaker 2: They are the duo that shook the world in nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty four. This music is so evocative. They skated to

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Speaker 2: this incredible ballero and went on to become world champions.

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Speaker 2: They received the highest figure skating score of all time

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Speaker 2: in the eighty four Olympics.

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Speaker 1: Yes, nine sections four in the first set. That is

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Speaker 1: thirteen sections, the most sexes ever scored by any skaters

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Speaker 1: in comportation.

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Speaker 3: What a way to go out on top of the world.

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Speaker 2: That is amazing, amazing, And forty years on, Jane Torvill

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Speaker 2: and Christopher Dean are still known as the Ice King

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Speaker 2: and Queen, but they're preparing for their final state at

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Speaker 2: skate together for a farewell tour called Our Last Dance.

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Speaker 2: Hello the two of you, Good morning. Have you skated

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Speaker 2: together in all these intervening years.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, we have it. Next year will be fifty

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Speaker 4: years of skating together.

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Speaker 2: So it's not.

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Speaker 3: Started when we were fifteen, no one one.

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Speaker 2: So it's not like when all of the big brew

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Speaker 2: ha haa finished. You sort of went your separate ways

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Speaker 2: and only now coming back together. You've been skating together

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Speaker 2: all this time.

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Speaker 4: Yes, In fact, in nineteen eighty four, after the Olympics.

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Speaker 4: Sydney was the first place that we came to as

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Speaker 4: when we turned professional, So we came down here with

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Speaker 4: the intention of doing like ten shows and then we

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Speaker 4: ended up staying for three months. They kept adding shows

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Speaker 4: and we just then.

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Speaker 3: Off the back of that, we put together our own

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Speaker 3: tour and then we eventually stayed down here for a year.

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Speaker 3: So it's great to be back and it's great to

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Speaker 3: be finishing here as well, so it feels like full circle.

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Speaker 5: Then when you do an ice skating show, how long

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Speaker 5: does it go for? Because I think you know because

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Speaker 5: I know it from the Olympics. When you guys did it,

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Speaker 5: you're on the ice for what three and a half minutes?

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Speaker 5: So when you go onto a big ice show, obviously

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Speaker 5: people will want more than three and a half minutes.

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Speaker 3: No, it's like a proper show. It's two fifty minute

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Speaker 3: halfs yep. But we're bringing lots of other professional skaters

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Speaker 3: with us, other talents as well. But the thrust of

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Speaker 3: this particular production is that it's going to be sort

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Speaker 3: of our life story and that we'll be talking in

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Speaker 3: between and skating in between, and then some of the

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Speaker 3: well known numbers that we've done in the past. We're

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Speaker 3: sort of building out and creating stories behind them, but

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Speaker 3: hugely emotional.

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Speaker 2: What kind of toll does skating take on your body?

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Speaker 2: Great fitness regime, but what kind of injuries do you sustain?

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Speaker 2: I assume you haven't sliced each other's fingers off or anything.

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Speaker 3: Well, Jane's managed to break my nose, managed to haven't

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Speaker 3: I with my blade blade through the hand, lots of

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Speaker 3: puncture wounds in my shins, back issues, I mean, just

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Speaker 3: you regularly the usual kind of thing.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and Jane's come out, You've come out unscathed with it.

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Speaker 4: It seems that I do think that Chris has had

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Speaker 4: more injuries than I have. But you know, we're so

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Speaker 4: lucky that we haven't had more than what we've had,

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Speaker 4: considering how much we've done, how many shows we've done

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Speaker 4: over the years, and we just were still.

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Speaker 3: Going as dancers rule. The dancer's rule is do you

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Speaker 3: never drop your partner, or if you do have to

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Speaker 3: go down, you go down first and they land on you.

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Speaker 4: I've done that many golden rules.

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Speaker 2: Which is why you've hit the hit the dick first.

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Speaker 3: Correct.

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Speaker 2: I was reading that you saved Jane's life Chris, when

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Speaker 2: you were having an anaphylectic moment. Is that right, Jane, Oh, yes,

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Speaker 2: notalogy that odd thing.

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Speaker 3: Yes, oh, the old EpiPen come out, because when it happens,

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Speaker 3: it's it's really dramatic, isn't it. I mean almost like

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Speaker 3: the omen or what is it? When it headspins round?

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Speaker 3: And she sounded like her said, Jane, what's happening? And

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Speaker 3: we we apt to be in Alaska actually in the

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Speaker 3: middle of nowhere, the middle of nowhere, and they were

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Speaker 3: about to call a helicopter in and she said, no,

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Speaker 3: it's just the epi pens and goes.

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Speaker 2: The You did that? Yeah, amazing, What an amazing partnership

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Speaker 2: you've had.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, But you guys must know each other so well.

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Speaker 5: There must be stuff that irritates you about each other.

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Speaker 5: Because Amanda and I have been doing this radio show

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Speaker 5: for twenty years. We're married to separate partners. But there's

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Speaker 5: always stuff.

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Speaker 3: Very similar, isn't it.

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Speaker 5: It is very And it's like ice skating. Sometimes someone's

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Speaker 5: bum ends up in your face.

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Speaker 2: We won't go there, but yes, you two must know

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Speaker 2: the ups and the downs of each other's lives very well.

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Speaker 6: Well.

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Speaker 3: We grew up together, you know, We were fifteen years

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Speaker 3: old when we started skating together. So we've gone through

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Speaker 3: this twenties, thirties, marriages, children, all of that thing, and

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Speaker 3: now almost retirement.

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Speaker 2: And how will you feel as you wrap up this tour.

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Speaker 4: I think it will be emotional, But at the moment,

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Speaker 4: we're just starting to prepare to get ready for it.

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Speaker 3: It's exciting at the moment because of all the cast

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Speaker 3: that we're having and the creativity that you're putting into

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Speaker 3: a show. You want to make it the biggest and best,

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Speaker 3: and so at the moment we're sort of really excited

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Speaker 3: by it. But I'm sure when it comes to that

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Speaker 3: last dance, yeah, they'll be Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We did this.

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Speaker 3: Actually, we were thinking that we were retiring back in

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Speaker 3: nineteen ninety eight, and we didn't tell anybody, and it

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Speaker 3: was I think it was in Seattle or something.

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Speaker 4: We're in the States as part of another show. It

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Speaker 4: wasn't our own show, so.

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Speaker 3: We didn't tell anybody, just ourselves and we sort of

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Speaker 3: had a last hug and somebody took a picture and

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Speaker 3: that's sort of on our wall. But then a few

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Speaker 3: years later in the UK, we started a TV show

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Speaker 3: called Dancing on Ice and that's been going for seventeen

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Speaker 3: years now and that's kept us alive and we perform

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Speaker 3: each season on that as well. So we've just kept

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Speaker 3: on skating and touring off the back of that.

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Speaker 2: Well, I wonder, I imagine there'll be some dramatic moment

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Speaker 2: and hopefully it's not slicing off fingers or that allergies,

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Speaker 2: and hopefully it's a majestic and wonderful and tear field moment.

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Speaker 6: And certainly not bum in face or that could be

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Speaker 6: beyoncre Well.

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Speaker 3: You know, there is a number that we do in

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Speaker 3: the routine that's familiar. You played the music earlier that

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Speaker 3: we may be finishing with that.

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Speaker 6: Because is that hard to do?

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Speaker 5: That's because you're a bit older than you were back

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Speaker 5: in nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 3: Well, when you said forty, I sort of had a

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Speaker 3: bit of a jolt for at the moment.

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Speaker 5: But that's and how physically tiring is it because people

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Speaker 5: are going to expect you to do it.

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Speaker 3: Well, we do age appropriate skating okay, but at the

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Speaker 3: same time, it's still challenging foras and we're hopeful that

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Speaker 3: it will conjure up the memories of when we were

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Speaker 3: skating together.

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Speaker 6: Or may your skates be sharp and the ice feed icy.

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Speaker 6: And that's the relationship. Crisp, and the relationship not in

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Speaker 6: any way be icy. It's so great to see you guys.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: It's lovely to be here. And the view that you

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Speaker 6: have here, it's all right, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Do they pay you to come to work?

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Speaker 2: It's amazing, isn't there some days? Or do you pay

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Speaker 2: the bosses? Would be very happy to do this job

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Speaker 2: for nothing.

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Speaker 6: Just to look at that, well, you probably just keep

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Speaker 6: that on the deck.

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Speaker 5: I get your tickets now to see Total and Dean

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Speaker 5: our last dance at ticket Tech.

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Speaker 6: Jane Tuvill, Christopher Dean, thank you for joining us. Thanks

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Speaker 6: so much,