The Making and Keeping of Books

I have a friend who says that he's a martyr to his garden but I hope I've not been a martyr to the garden. The work of actually doing it was always just down to me because of course there was no money to pay anybody. One of the first podcasts I did in this accomplishment podcast series was with a guy called Peter Hyman who originally worked with me in number 10 in the Blair years. He founded a chain of schools in the east of London in Newham and one of his big themes about current education is that so these are good state schools for ordinary kids from that part of London. But he very consciously builds it around the physical, the mental and the emotional so