
EP1: The Early Years - In Conversations with John Aizlewood
The Martin Smith Podcast
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Did You Get the O Levels?
I took 10 O levels as you did. And I only got two. One of them was pottery. So they made me reset the year. It was that year that I strangely entered a music competition. Do you remember Pebble Mill at one? Of course. And it was called Song for Christmas and I wrote this Christmas song, sent it into the BBC. The school got a call. Got someone into the headmaster's office. Martin Smith didn't really know who I was because I was a hopeless academic. But he asked if I would sing the song in the school assembly. You got to imagine I'm a 16-year-old boy in a rugby school. This isn't
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