This is The Guardian.

Today, what was Nigel Farage really like at school?

Before we start, there is some really upsetting racist language in this episode.

I remember vividly my first day there. I had these butterflies in the pit of my summer.

Today, Peter Atteggy is a well-known filmmaker, but 40 years ago, he was just a nervous boy

starting out at Dulwich College in South London.

I was 13. I'd come from a fairly small school into this slightly intimidating kind of gothic structure that was huge and there were so many students milling about.

As time went on, he found ways to fit in, but it wasn't easy.

I was a performer, I could say. I loved music. I loved theatre, but I had never acted before,

and as much as I didn't love Dulwich College, Dulwich took drama very seriously, and I think

that was one of the things

that I gravitated towards very soon.

And it was kind of like the saving grace of the school for me

because it didn't like the whole atmosphere of the school

and the culture of it.

I always found slightly sort of intimidating, I guess.

And the personification of that was the guy sitting in front of me,

Nigel Varaj. He says that soon after arriving, Varaj had him in his sights.

Once he found out I was Jewish, you know, that was it. I have this incredibly clear memory

of him persistently heckling and hectoring me as a duke.

He'd kind of come up to me wherever we were, maybe in the classroom, it might be in the

school grounds. He'd say things like Hitler was right and gasum and the sound of gas escaping,

...