Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

90: Brendan McSharry OBE

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My guest this week is Brendan McSharry, Editor of The Link, who studied History and English at Lampeter from 1968-71. He has received an OBE for services to education and culture in Iraq where he spent four years working for the British Council.  Born in North West London in 1949, Brendan explains why he wanted to study as far away as possible from the city, and he remembers the long train journey to Carmarthen and what happened when he travelled with a Welsh lorry driver who couldn’t speak a word of English. Brendan discusses his Irish background and how, from childhood, he can recall the fast pace of life in London and how he had hardly visited the countryside before going to Lampeter. In his family he was the first of his generation to go to university, and we find out what his parents did. Brendan discusses Carnaby Street and how he became a voracious reader in later years, as well as developed a love of classical music. He was Captain of the cross country club while at university. His school, on the o