Paul Farmer
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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So they didn't necessarily see the institution of the church as something to just simply adhere to.
So they would encourage us to think in a quite a constructively critical way, I suppose.
My mother was a teacher in a convent school for a while until the day that she decided that she should wear trousers.
So this would have been in the early seventies, I suppose.
Uh
Um and that point that wasn't something that was approved of.
She left the school because she wanted to make a stand about, you know, the ability of women to be able to wear whatever they wanted to.
And I think it was a quite a good example of how she and my father you know were prepared to say, yes, there are all these rules and so on and so forth, but don't
Don't just say they're the rules and you've got to follow them.
School was uh s I I arrived in the school I was very young.
I got a scholarship into the school, so they they sort of decided that the
what they called the third year, which was the equivalent of year nine, wasn't really worth bothering with.
So I was propelled into the year ahead.
I don't think that was very good for me actually.
Um because I was in a class with lots of people who were a lot older than I was and I arrived I was
twelve and most of the other people in the class were thirteen and a half.
Yes, I am physically small.
And that also meant that you're you know, I think you can become a target because you're different, you're standing out.
But you know, I think actually it was the l the learning and sport that probably carried me through the What was your sport?
I would play anything.
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