“I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deci”

“I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.”