Jeremy Corbyn

And so it was, looking back on it, a time of unbelievable sense of security and freedom, which I find sad that these days children don't get that chance, don't get that sense of freedom of opportunity.

I wish they did.

No, no, I didn't.

I went to a Catholic primary school in Chippenham, Wiltshire.

And were your parents Catholic?

You see...

My mum was brought up very heavily within the Church of England.

Indeed, her brother was a vicar.

But she herself was an atheist, but had an unbelievable knowledge of the Bible.

She was a Bible-reading atheist, and she said it's the greatest work of literature, King James Bible.

So she said it's the greatest work of literature, the most wonderful stories, and so on.

Okay.

My dad was a...

active person within the Church of England, but his knowledge of the Bible was not as good as hers, so she would frequently correct him, which was quite funny actually.

How I ended up in a Catholic primary school, I've no idea.

It must have been a sort of witty compromise.

And where did you go next?

And then we moved to Shropshire, and I went to another school there for three years, a private primary school.

The best thing there was a teacher who loved poetry, and she gave me a love of poetry.

What was her name?