INTERVIEW
What would be your act What or who inspired on Britain’s Got Talent? you to teach? I was once challenged Throughout my life I by some prep school have always got a buzz children to learn to hula from helping, supporting hoop and juggle when and teaching others. It is I told them anything is so rewarding. possible. I spent a few What was your favourite weeks practising and subject at school? returned to show them. I was best at maths (and What is your biggest became a maths teacher) achievement? but my favourite was Professionally, running always history and still is. the world’s finest school; All-time favourite book? personally, trekking to the Birdsong, South Pole. whose author, Why, in your opinion, is Sebastian Faulks, your school the best? is coincidentally It is, quite simply, the an Old most dynamic and Wellingtonian. exciting educational What is your environment I have ever best-loved piece We chat to Wellington College’s encountered. of music? Julian Thomas about what both Who is your most Jean Sibelius’s motivates and inspires him at infamous alumni? Finlandia or There She Christopher Lee’s Goes by The La’s. school and beyond Dracula scared me as Favourite Shakespeare a child just as his Saruman play and why? blanket and a water purifier. scares current generations, but I am always inspired by the What’s the hardest thing you’ve James Hunt has the strongest monologues in Henry V but I ever done? reputation as an enfant terrible. also find Much Ado About Physically, it has to be running But a terrific Wellingtonian by Nothing highly amusing. the Marathon des Sables. all accounts. What is your personal Who would you most like to be What three things do you need motto for life? for the day? to be a successful headmaster? Anything is possible. Whoever is currently at Camp 4 Only two things: passion and Are you more of a hunter or a on the South Col of Everest, just compassion. gatherer? one day’s climb from the peak. What advice do you have for Hunter, definitely! What would your school leavers? If you could only bring last meal be? Whatever you do, you’ll be doing three things with you Fish and chips it for most of your life, so make to a desert island, what with all the sure it is a passion and then you would they be? trimmings from will never feel that you have to If not my children, then the Wellington ‘work’ a day in your life. a signalling mirror, a foil College canteen.
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