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audience stood up to declare
that a woman could do it.
Annie Luker duly made her
perilous plunge and ‘the
effect was electrical’. She had
wanted her husband – ‘I’m
married, you know’ – to
make the challenge but ‘he
was too nervous’ so a friend
took his place. Her husband,
however, couldn’t overcome
his fears: ‘he never comes to
see me, he couldn’t stand it.
We live close by, and he