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What would you say if you went back to your old school?

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What would you say if you went back to your old school?

Fiona Phillips - it was terrible here - turned me into a vile teenager.

In her role as guest speaker, she claimed teachers at the Southampton comprehensive crushed her aspirations during the 1970s, resulting in her leaving with just one O-level.

Describing her arrival at Millbrook as an "eye opener" after being top of her primary school class, she said: "It was a school rampant with hormones and no discipline, no aspiration and no encouragement.

"I went in and said I wanted to be a doctor and they said, 'Have you thought about hairdressing?' I can remember being in classes throwing furniture around. We locked a fashion teacher in a cupboard and threw one over a bush, and that was normal behaviour.

David laws - education minister says teachers to blame for pupils lack of ambition.
Were you encouraged to reach for the stars - or made to feel you would never amount to much?

Did you just go and work in one of the few big local employers in your town?

Were you the problem or was your school the problems?

Also on the show, whether you are a believer or a sceptic, mysterious phenomena are said to linger in every village, town and city across the UK. Of course here in Kent we lay claim to England's most haunted please - the village of Pluckley.

So at a time of year when ghosts, ghouls and the unknown are rife, we hear from one man, Lionel Fanthorpe, a parnormal investiogator, authour of books on the weird and wonderful and a fully ordained Anglican Priest! We find out - why this time of year is so celebrated?

We hear your views and stories.

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Fri 26 Oct 2012 09:00

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  • Fri 26 Oct 2012 09:00