Richard Feidler

So there was Helen, who's sadly deceased now, myself and Peter and Simon, my two brothers.

When we were very young, we were very close because we used to get beaten up a lot and I used to defend my brothers.

So because my mother also worked, we were left on our own a lot, a lot.

Oh, totally.

It was Putney Heath, literally across the road, like five minutes from where our flat was.

And I used to go there as a child to escape the family and what was going on in there, but also because it was peaceful and I would just walk for hours and be on my own for hours and had a huge imagination, loved talking to the birds.

And I'm not that much different in the terms of wanting to be in nature.

That's my go-to place.

Yeah, that was – and you can't change the past but like – so I was doing – I was very good at English.

I was very good at biology, geography.

I was a curious kid.

I loved to learn everything.

And then my sister came home one day and said she was going to be babysitting for this gardener.

We had a private, very posh private housing estate next to the council estate and she'd met this guy who was the gardener there and he needed someone to look after his 18-month-old child while he worked on Saturday mornings and you got 10 shillings for it.

And so she did that and she came home and just said, I'm not doing that.

Do you want to do it?

I don't want to do this anymore.

No explanation, which I really think about now.

So I did it.

I was able to buy my first transistor radio.