Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

It was so delightful for this week’s interview to meet Jo Pearsall, Deputy Secretary of Council and the Court at the University of Kent. Jo was a History student at Kent from 1989-92 and in this very sprightly interview she talks about how strange it felt to return after ten years to work in the same place as when she was a student. Originally from Tamworth in Staffordshire, Jo was the first person in her family to go to university and she talks about how there was an inevitability that she would go there. She also tells us about the holiday job she once had at a Leicestershire zoo. Jo discusses how her earliest memories seem to be from photos and we learn that despite coming from a sporty family she isn’t sporty herself. We talk about where her flair for music comes from and how her mother loved listening to the radio. One of her earliest memories is of her mum listening to Terry Wogan (during his original 1970s incarnation) and the ‘Pina Colada’ song being played. This prompts a reflection about the days