Girls in Orbit was our first “non stand up” show, moving more towards theatre. We had grown bored of being on a bill with lots of men, some of them quite aggressive, (this was the era of the Bradford ranting poets, they were proper scary!), so we decided to write a science fiction comedy using characters from the 1963 Bunty annual and taking them on a feminist journey. One of our heroines was Stinker Smith, a girl who was top of the class in chemistry but harboured a secret desire to become a ballerina. Maggie played the eponymous heroine in a 2D tutu with a 2D cut out moveable leg in ballet pump, which she could raise in the air and achieve marvellous contortions. In the mêlée of packing up after one show we inadvertently left said leg behind. Arriving at our next gig we realised the all important limb was missing. So we casually said to the assembled company, “I don’t suppose anyone has a spare leg?”. To our amazement one man said quite nonchalantly that he had a spare leg at home and went to fetch it. It was a 3D mannequin’s leg but enabled us to perform the show. I mean, if you don’t ask, you don’t get!”