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I’m in the last two films but more in the last film but I was a snatcher, I had a wand,
we had wand training, we had an hour of training with this, you know, French guy who would,
sort of, well he basically, you know, showed us how to wave a wand.
It’s a bloody hard course, like, you know, you have to work hard and the leap from a
BA to the MA was quite, I noticed it and you’re warned about it in the first week though,
you’re told, you know, this is the hours you’re going to need to commit to get this
right. It’s like, you arrived in the door and we were off and it was like that for the
rest of the year. A typical week is made up of, you know, law,
shorthand in the first semester, I did shorthand and, of course, you know, you do your lectures
and your seminars but then, of course, outside of that you’re either producing a newspaper
or a magazine. We actually launched Mouth so we had a whole
research process where we had to, you know, go out and speak to the students and it was,
you know, quite a tough thing coming up with a name. It’s changed a lot, we launched
it as an A4 mag and it’s now, you know, gone down to the handbag size but it’s looking
good, I’m proud that it’s still going. Kingston’s very, very different, it’s
very personal, you can pretty much, you know, knock on a door at any time. I think I even,
you know, text or called a couple of my lecturers in moments of panic over the, during the year.
Without doubt I wouldn’t be working as a journalist now without it, you know, I graduated
into a very difficult working climate like most people probably are now it was, you know,
but I had the tools that I needed to work and it was just a matter of, you know, being
persistent and, but I mean, I honestly, it sounds like I’m, sort of, you’ve paid
me to say this but I honestly, whenever I talk about Kingston and this course I loved
every minute of it and it was just the best choice I made in terms of, you know, getting
into journalism.