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Lorne is one of the UK’s most celebrated sculptors.  Commissions include many fascinating people, famous and less well-known, as well as animals. One sculpture is of Herbert the trout, who lived in her bath for 6 months while she studied his every characteristic before creating the final sculpture. 

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Stuntman

It’s not often we interview someone who loves his job quite this much.  Sitting in front of Kevin is like facing a coiled ball of human energy.  Read about his unusual job. 

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Prodigy

Tristan spent 8 years at the Ficino junior school.  He then skipped high school and went straight to university to study science at the age of 12.   What’s it like to be a child prodigy?

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Coincidence?

Shabnam is a medical doctor, working with facial skin cancer.  Now a student in the School for 10 years, she found her way to philosophy through an extraordinary coincidence.  Or was it?

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