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Sep 29, 2026
IssyHOST
Two years performing.
IssyHOST
Then off the back of that, I went to full-time theatre school, Sylvia Young's, and then went back home to do my GCSEs and then went to the sixth form that Cal and I met, which specialised in theatre.
IssyHOST
And then by that stage, I was like, nah, not for me anymore.
CalHOST
Yeah, I used to want to be a musician growing up.
IssyHOST
Yeah, play the guitar.
IssyHOST
Were you in the band at Sixth Form?
CalHOST
Yeah.
CalHOST
It's so funny.
Adit TrivediGUEST
It just it did not look appealing in any way, shape or form.
Adit TrivediGUEST
But then when I got to Sixth Form.
Adit TrivediGUEST
That's when I started changing my ways and I had a teacher like sit down with me every day to teach me how to code.
Adit TrivediGUEST
And suddenly I felt this sense of calmness and I was like, okay, this is something I don't mind doing.
Dan StarkeyGUEST
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dan StarkeyGUEST
So we did – because my school, we did – the sixth formers did a Shakespeare play in the first term, in the winter term.
Dan StarkeyGUEST
And, yeah, the first play – actually, the first play in the summer term, in my second form – When I was 13, we did The Son of Man, which is a Dennis Potter play about the life of Christ.
Dan StarkeyGUEST
So it was quite controversial in the 60s when it was broadcast.
Dan StarkeyGUEST
And one of our teachers decided to do that as the kind of junior play.
Dan StarkeyGUEST
And then, oh, and then they went, oh, oh, he can act a bit.
Dan StarkeyGUEST
And then I got invited to then be in the Shakespeare play with the Sixth Formers to be in The Tempest.
Dan StarkeyGUEST
So I was Trinculo in The Tempest.
Natalia AndersonHOST
And you're listening to Tuneful Radio, a monthly music podcast where I ask my guests what was on the radio during different eras of their lives.
Natalia AndersonHOST
Guests will tune into radio stations that sum up their early childhood, high school and sixth form college and early adulthood.
Natalia AndersonHOST
There's also a love and heartbreak station and a present day station.
Natalia AndersonHOST
Make sure you stay to the end where I will tune into the future radio and that's where I share with my guests an unsigned or indie artist that I think that they might like.
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Natalia AndersonHOST
And I just inherited the collection and I was just like, let me try.
Natalia AndersonHOST
Let us move on.
Natalia AndersonHOST
Can someone change the dial on the radio? We've arrived at high school, college, and for college we say like sixth form college.
CarlGUEST
You guys went to Brit
James HoggHOST
had any experience at all performing
Reece ShearsmithGUEST
before that? I'd played the Cowardly Lion in the Sixth Form production.
Reece ShearsmithGUEST
And that was it? That was it.
Reece ShearsmithGUEST
But what I had done, actually, was...
Alex Swart-WilsonGUEST
Okay, so I am Alex Swart-Wilson.
Alex Swart-WilsonGUEST
I am a deputy head and head of sixth form at Bishop's Stortford College.
Alex Swart-WilsonGUEST
And, uh, for those of you who don't know, the college is an independent school, um, in Bishop's Stortford that runs from the ages of three to 18.
Alex Swart-WilsonGUEST
So we have three schools on one site.
Alex Swart-WilsonGUEST
We have a, um, a pre-prep that goes from the ages of three to seven, and then a prep school from seven to 13, and then a senior school from 13 to 18.
Alex Swart-WilsonGUEST
And within the senior school, I am responsible for the final two years, so sixth form, years 12 and 13 if you want them in, in different parlance.
Alex Swart-WilsonGUEST
And my job is really to oversee everything that happens within the sixth form.
Alex Swart-WilsonGUEST
So I cover all of the admissions into the sixth form, including everything from GCSEs to A-levels, subject choices, scholarships.
Andrew HulbertGUEST
I was sort of fucking about a little bit and making some mistakes.
Andrew HulbertGUEST
And then I got into sixth form.
Andrew HulbertGUEST
And then that's where I met my middle class white Oxford mates that all wanted to go to university.
Andrew HulbertGUEST
And that wasn't me.
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Andrew HulbertGUEST
But also there are downsides to that because you're hyper focused on one thing and you're not balanced in other things.
Andrew HulbertGUEST
But that's entrepreneurship as well, I think, for me.
Ellie McKayHOST
I suppose another sliding doors moment for you was getting into Sixth Form and completely changing that group of friends.
Andrew HulbertGUEST
Yeah, it was.
Billy HardingGUEST
And that was an opportunity then.
Billy HardingGUEST
Fine, I wasn't in the academy, but I was going to a very good school with a very good rugby background and gave me the opportunity to go and play some of my best rugby as a junior and, you know, as a young adult there and was made captain in Upper Sixth and, you know, we had an awesome year there and still have got amazing friends from that time at that school.
Billy HardingGUEST
There's 12 to 15 of us who meet up every year, every Christmas and have a good Christmas dinner and a catch up somewhere around London and, Yeah, that was a big turning point, the ability to go to A, a great school, and B, be able to play great rugby.
Billy HardingGUEST
And all credit to Zoran, really, for spotting me and bringing me in.
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Billy HardingGUEST
of naturally to
PaulHOST
you
Billy HardingGUEST
yeah I think you definitely it definitely does but you have to work on it quite a lot as well and a few of those experiences I was quite a young guy still and like especially at Stourbridge and Isha was quite a young guy to be captain I think I was 22 or 23 and then 25 at Isha uh but something that's definitely complemented my game too I remember at school in upper sixth that year I was made captain I'd has an unbelievable try-scoring year.
Billy HardingGUEST
I don't know if that record still stands.
IssyHOST
approached me at that party.
CalHOST
Okay, well, I would have met you when we first started Sixth Form.
IssyHOST
Yeah.
CalHOST
Yes, which was, you started at 16?
IssyHOST
His mum still buys his trousers.
CalHOST
Yeah.
CalHOST
We actually, we didn't really know each other in the first year of Sixth Form, did we? We
IssyHOST
got together in 2014, December.
RobinHOST
It was really strange because we no longer had to wear a school uniform in school.
RobinHOST
and our sixth form college was within our school and uh i did sociology french and biology i think uh i lasted about three months and um no i did art and my art teacher said you need to go to art college you don't want to be wasting your time here and he pretty much pushed me at christmas to go to art college and to don't do this my dad hated him for it
ChrisHOST
okay
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I went to art college.
RobinHOST
It was a total.
ChrisHOST
Yeah.
ChrisHOST
I've, Just had my first experience of teaching sixth form and A-level and this sort of thing.
ChrisHOST
I'm not actually teaching A-level.
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