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pint-sized episode just before we came on we were talking about

mature students we had a bloke who was a steelwork could be made redundant was probably in his

early 50s I think who just fancied doing a history degree.

And then we had this lady from Bregend, who was 80,

and she was doing a history degree

because she never had the opportunity, you know, when she was 18.

She was 80 doing a course.

Do you study her?

Pre-industrial students. I remember that. That's kicking the ass on a mature student, though, isn't it? If you're older than the average age of death... Yeah. She's right, all the rest is in a pencil as well, with a pencil. Good. You make mistakes? I'm with her on that. Lose marks for that. Yeah, she's a ticker, noughts with pencil as well.

Yeah, the mature student. Well, third play, we had a... Oh, is it? They just work harder, don't they? I like it, yeah, because when I did my post-grad, I did a post-grad in journalism. You were a mature student? No, I was. Oh, no. No, Mike was.

Oh, Mike was.

Yeah, because you were.

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