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Two record-breaking shows based on the series of Radio 4 stories written for him by Ian McMillan and the late Martyn Wiley in the early 1990s. Come and meet teacher Richard Matthewman who, at the age of 42, is finally leaving the village where he has grown up, for a new job. Both shows look back at one boy's journey to manhood through schooldays in the 1950s, the summer of love, university, leaving home, the day Kennedy was shot, Uncle Albert's banjo defence of the miners in 1984, a father's death...