Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Clive Marsh, Head of the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Leicester. Clive, who was born into a Liverpudlian working class family, shares his earliest memories, which include playing with bricks on a floor and eating a rotten apple. We talk about how different it was to grow up in a pre-student loan world where we received grants to go to university, and how his parents sheltered him from financial anxiety, before discussing the various kinds of sports that Clive was into as a child. He used to play cricket and football and followed Liverpool FC, and we learn why he was once physically sick en route to a match. He also remembers the red velvet plushness of the Odeon Cinema in Liverpool. In his teenage years Clive discovered the Times newspaper film reviews and he reflects on how he has been reading critical film reviews for 45 years. Pop music was crucial in Clive’s upbringing, especially through Radio Luxembourg which he used to listen to under the bed