by MAURICE WIGGIN abridged by Cristina Sellors
Read by HAYDN JONES
Produced by John Cardy
First of ten instalments
' My precocious command of language stood me in good stead when I was left at the dame's school that first dreadful morning. f let them have it ... Being caged up with people indoors and damn-all to do but sums-it struck me then. and it strikes me now. as total waste of life.'