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We feel like we've got

more space around us,

and we've got to do

everything inside,

but we can build on it,

and that's what we want.

I've been promising to have a

housewarming party since we've moved in.

We've been here four months now,

so I thought it was

about time we did that.

So people are just

starting to arrive now.

So, you left the East End. Why?

Well, I've always

wanted to move out,

but you don't do that, or

the opportunity isn't there,

when you are own your

own with two kids.

I wish I had done it before.

It's timing, you know.

Now was the right time, obviously.

The East End has changed.

It's changed a lot.

He was even playing

"tie the tooth."

Mum comes down to me.

It's so easy for them.

They can jump on a train, and, you know,

the station's within walking distance,

so it's worked out

wonderfully well.

Some people are just born into

rich families, and they're lucky.

I don't see why they

should have the luck,

when people have worked

all their lives

and haven't got half as

much as what they have,

it just don't seem fair.

(Michael) So have you

moved up a class now?

That's difficult to say.

Up a class.

Um, I suppose it feels

like that to me.

No, there ain't

no need for food...

Now you've got the sense of pride,

you've got your own house.

I feel like I'm building

for the future.

(laughs)

I've been a single parent

for a long while.

I've brought them up

on my own, really,

because Catherine was

only two when Bill left.

It's been extremely hard

and it's been - sometimes

it's been very lonely.

I only had to have

one filling, right.

That was about the only

thing that I had done.

William's - he's a computer addict.

He works in the industry

and he also constantly

has a computer on indoors.

He-he could have

gone to university,

and he knows that and I know that,

and I do regret that for him.

But I've been there.

I can just remember I didn't

want to do that, either.

And Catherine's temping

because she wants to do a

bit of traveling next year.

People say she's me reincarnated.

I mean, she looks a bit like me

and her mannerisms

are exactly like me,

and she likes to enjoy herself.

To walk into a relationship

with someone who's

got two teenagers -

It must have been

very difficult for him,

and they do clash occasionally.

I absolutely hate it,

because I'm just

an easy-going person

and I don't like strife.

They are doing things

the way I've brought them up,

which isn't the way that Glen

would like things to be done,

so you've got to learn to live

together in the same house.

It will always be a learning curve.

I'm a peacemaker.

When the children were

old enough to go to school,

Sue went back to work and

had a series of office jobs.

She now helps run the MA courses

in the legal faculty of

the university of London.

Still work for the college,

but we moved to central London.

Now I am sort of the main

administrator for the program

instead of an assistant, you know,

and I've got a couple of people

that help me with that.

Could you fax that to Mary

for me, please? Thanks.

So you like the responsibility?

Yeah, I love the responsibility.

I think I was born for the

responsibility. Yeah, I love it.

Well, I've never been abroad, but -

No, nor have I.

I have.

Oh, yeah, 'cause you went on

that cruise, didn't you? Yeah.

Once a year we go

to Cornwall or Devon.

We try to find a

different spot every year,

and we just bring the dog.

It's just such a lovely place.

Every time you turn a corner,

there's a different sight,

there's a different -

You just never know

what you're going to find.

Everything's just so beautiful.

We'd both had childhood holidays

here and good memories,

and we decided to come back,

and we've been coming ever since.

It's nice for us just to

be a couple for a week.

When we retire, or maybe

before, if we get lucky,

then this is the sort of

place we'd like to come to.

That little one there, right in

the middle nearest the beach -

That would be ideal, absolute

perfect - the perfect place.

(laughs)

Oh, that was good.

Vesto, vestas, vest...

Vestat.

Vestamus, vestatis, vestant.

(man) Here, speak up.

Fill out the gaps

on the board there.

When he was seven, Bruce was at

a preparatory boarding school.

At 14, St. Paul's in London.

They don't sort of enforce

being upper class

and things like that

at St. Paul's, you know.

They suggest that you don't have

long hair, and they do get it cut if,

and they teach you to be

reasonably well mannered

but not to sniff on

the poorer people.

At 21, he was in his last year

at Oxford, reading maths.

You can show that

this is irreducible.

Then you do a transformation on this

polynomial - x equal to t plus 2.

Good. That's a nice

way of doing it,

particularly using

Eisenstein down here.

His test is very powerful.

(Bruce calling children's names)

Yes, sir!

At 28, Bruce was teaching maths

in east London.

Well, I'll go into Africa

and try and teach people

who are not civilized

to be more or less good.

At 35, he was teaching in Silet

in northern Bangladesh.

And I also got the chance to learn a

bit of Bangla, which is very difficult.

Not doing very well at.

(instructor) Bangladesh,

Bangladesh. Bangladesh.

Bangladesh.

Bangladesh.

Bangladesh.

Before you do anything,

you have to make sure...

By 42, Bruce was back

in the East End

running the maths department

at a girls' school.

After naught hours you can see

that it would be 60 litres.

OK, now you want to put this

information... ( choir singing)

At 49, he's teaching at St. Albans,

a large boys' independent school

which has girls in the sixth form.

I sing in the choir.

That happens twice a week.

On Mondays and Fridays

we go to the abbey,

because in the early days,

the school was in the abbey,

going back to 948.

(Michael) 948?

Yes, so the head

quite likes to say

we're in our third

millennium, you know.

So the school's over

a thousand years old?

Yes, in one form or another.

You have to make x

the subject of this equation,

so what's the first thing we do?

Multiply both sides by three.

You don't multiply...

Divide. Sorry. Divide by three.

(Michael) Tell me, then, what's

exciting about teaching here for you.

There is a higher

academic level to teach,

and then you can see pupils

at a more developed level,

that flash of recognition

and then engendering

their love of the subject

that I had at their age.

There is a class society,

and I think public schools

may help its continuance.

So you're in the lead,

you see, because...

has it been a kind of compromise

of political principles

for you - this?

Well, I would say, you know,

have a million angels

in front of every teacher

who's prepared to slog away

at an inner-city comprehensive.

"Make way, make way.

"This is somebody who's prepared

to turn up each day

and do that job."

(Paul) Where's the graph?

(girl) 60?

60, right.

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