Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Marion Stuart who studied Divinity at Lampeter in the 1980s and talks about the oddity of being in the same peer group as her lecturers. She reflects on how she took a subject which her parents wouldn’t really have approved of and she remembers the legendary DP Davies. From childhood Marion recalls the bombs that dropped during the Second World War and when the Crystal Palace grounds opened up. She tells us why she was ‘teacher’s favourite’ and how she had to deal with bullying. Marion remembers the rules of grammar school and how different it is from today, and she reflects on the difference between public and private school and her experience of working in a Lebanese refugee school in Cyprus. In terms of growing up, without pop music, Marion’s music was the school choir. She also learned songs from musicals and we talk about the concept of pop music being ‘of the Devil’ as well as how singing was her thing. Marion became a Reader in the Church in Wales and she talks about bein