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0:00:37 > 0:00:39- Here we are, Widford Lodge. Wow!
0:00:41 > 0:00:45- I went to Widford Lodge school - in Essex when I was seven...
0:00:45 > 0:00:48- ..and left when I was 13.
0:00:48 > 0:00:52- I have very happy memories - of the school.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58- You could stay here for a week - - a weekly boarder.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02- I didn't stay here - until I was 12 or 13.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05- I was a day boy at first.
0:01:08 > 0:01:13- It was a small school - - around 150 pupils.
0:01:13 > 0:01:19- I think that's why it felt like - a kind and happy place.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23- I made friends for life here.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29- This was my first classroom.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33- The year was 1981.
0:01:33 > 0:01:34- I was seven.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37- There was a large blackboard there.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39- A lot more desks.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41- They were wooden desks, I think.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44- Mrs Kay was the name of my teacher.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49- She was like a great-grandmother - - very old. But she was very kind.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55- There weren't many mixed race - or black people in the school...
0:01:55 > 0:01:58- ..in the '80s, - but I didn't feel different at all.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02- That's great on the school's part.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06- I didn't experience any racism - at the school.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10- Actually, I didn't experience any - when I was young.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21- My parents thought that - good education was very important.
0:02:22 > 0:02:27- It was very important to my mother - because of skin colour.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30- The best way for them - of doing that...
0:02:31 > 0:02:35- ..was to send me - to a traditional English school.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39- My mother came from Zimbabwe.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42- My father was from London.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45- They met in Cambridge.
0:02:49 > 0:02:54- My father graduated in Mathematics - and my mother trained as a nurse.
0:02:55 > 0:03:00- After that, - he started to work in computers.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05- An opportunity came to move - to New York to work for Reuters.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09- They moved to New York in 1972.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12- I was born in 1974.
0:03:13 > 0:03:18- We lived in Brooklyn, which is - trendy now but was rough back then.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24- We moved from New York - when I was two to Essex...
0:03:25 > 0:03:28- ..because my father - got a job in the City in London.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31- It was easy to travel to work - from Essex.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36- I think my parents were very brave.
0:03:36 > 0:03:40- In Britain in the '60s and '70s...
0:03:40 > 0:03:43- ..there was a lot of racism - compared to now.
0:03:44 > 0:03:45- They fell in love...
0:03:45 > 0:03:50- ..and they weren't going - to let anything stand in their way.
0:03:54 > 0:03:55- Wow!
0:03:57 > 0:03:58- Wow.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03- I remember this as a dormitory.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07- There were bunk beds - there, there, here and here.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10- There were ten of us - in the dormitory.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12- We were naughty.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14- I think we stayed up quite a lot.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17- But we had a lot of fun.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21- It was perfect for me to be honest.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25- I could stay with friends all week - and play with them...
0:04:25 > 0:04:30- ..and then go back to see - Mam and Dad over the weekend...
0:04:30 > 0:04:33- ..so I didn't miss them - or my friends.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35- It was the best of both worlds.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43- This is the school magazine.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45- It looks so old!
0:04:45 > 0:04:47- My name is in here.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49- 1986-1988.
0:04:49 > 0:04:54- Effort Prize - Sean Fletcher. - Form 6.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57- Richard Kendrick too. - He's my best friend now.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00- We both tried hard!
0:05:01 > 0:05:05- I would win the Effort Prize. - I didn't win any other awards!
0:05:06 > 0:05:09- Actually, it says Music Cup - - Sean Fletcher.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11- Autumn Term and Spring Term.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15- I won a Mathematics prize!
0:05:17 > 0:05:19- That's probably a mistake.
0:05:20 > 0:05:25- 1982-1984 - so that's way back in the day.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27- Sports Day, 1984.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29- Sean Fletcher - Victor Ludorum.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33- That shows I'm an all-rounder, - I think.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38- So I did well in the 100 metres, - the long jump and high jump.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43- I got joint first - with Tristan U'Glow-Jones.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51- It is odd seeing it again.
0:05:51 > 0:05:56- It's like someone else's life - because it's a long time ago.
0:06:08 > 0:06:09- This is the hall.
0:06:11 > 0:06:12- That's where I ate...
0:06:14 > 0:06:16- ..and had choir practice.
0:06:27 > 0:06:32- Nothing's changed! The flooring - and the radiators are the same.
0:06:32 > 0:06:37- The wood block on the stage - is the same.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40- Everything's stayed as it was.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51- There were two things - I really enjoyed at school.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55- Sports - I played rugby - for the first team and football.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58- I wasn't good at cricket - but I liked running.
0:06:59 > 0:07:00- The other was music.
0:07:00 > 0:07:05- I played the violin and enjoyed it - but I didn't practise enough.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10- After taking up the violin, - I joined the school choir.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13- I was the lead chorister...
0:07:13 > 0:07:17- ..so I wore a red cassock - and a white ruff.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19- I stood out to be honest...
0:07:19 > 0:07:24- ..because I was a black child with - different clothes to everyone else.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28- At Christmas time, the - lead chorister would sing a solo...
0:07:29 > 0:07:32- ..in the carol service - at Chelmsford Cathedral.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34- I sang Once In Royal David's City.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38- I remember looking at my mother - when I sang.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41- She was crying loads. - Crying non-stop.
0:07:41 > 0:07:45- It's quite emotional - when you think about it.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48- My mother's no longer here.
0:07:48 > 0:07:53- Looking back now, when I think about - her crying when I sang the solo...
0:07:54 > 0:07:58- ..I can see in her eyes...
0:07:59 > 0:08:02- ..that she was glad - that she made the decision...
0:08:03 > 0:08:05- ..to send me to that school.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12- # Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau #
0:08:17 > 0:08:19- It was a peaceful school...
0:08:19 > 0:08:22- ..but sometimes, just sometimes...
0:08:22 > 0:08:25- ..you'd hear everyone say, - "Scrap, scrap, scrap!"
0:08:26 > 0:08:28- Then everyone would run here...
0:08:29 > 0:08:33- ..to see two boys - fighting in the bushes over there.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35- It didn't happen a lot.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37- Over here...
0:08:38 > 0:08:40- ..was Class Two.
0:08:41 > 0:08:45- French, History and Geography.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50- There were two donkeys over there.
0:08:50 > 0:08:51- We fed them.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54- That's the swimming pool.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56- It was nice in the sun - in the summer.
0:08:57 > 0:08:58- Nice and warm.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02- In the winter, it was very cold.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09- It's interesting - to return to a school...
0:09:10 > 0:09:12- ..where I spent - six years of my life.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15- It's heart-warming.
0:09:17 > 0:09:18- I was happy here.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23- This school's - given me the confidence...
0:09:23 > 0:09:25- ..to try lots of different things.
0:09:50 > 0:09:51- This is Tor Bay in the Gower.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02- When I reach the top of the hill - and walk down to the beach...
0:10:03 > 0:10:05- ..I feel like I want to breathe.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10- When you come here, - you feel cleansed.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15- It's clean and pure.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17- It's lovely here.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20- It feels like a spring clean - for your body.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30- Tor Bay
0:10:30 > 0:10:33- I chose Tor Bay - as one of my three places...
0:10:34 > 0:10:39- ..because it's where a lot of things - that are important in my life now...
0:10:39 > 0:10:44- ..started and developed.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49- It's where I had one of - my early dates with my wife.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53- It's where I fell in love - with Wales.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57- I was raised in Essex.
0:10:57 > 0:11:02- My wife was raised in Hendy - in Wales.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07- I hadn't heard of Welsh - before I met Luned.
0:11:07 > 0:11:11- No-one asked me to learn Welsh.
0:11:11 > 0:11:16- I just wanted - to speak my wife's language.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17- It's important.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21- It's an important part - of her identity...
0:11:21 > 0:11:25- ..so I felt it was important - for me to learn the language too.
0:11:27 > 0:11:32- I started with the Wlpan course - at Cardiff University.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34- Then I thought, "It's fun."
0:11:34 > 0:11:38- So I did the next course - and the one the year after.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41- I spent five years learning Welsh.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44- After that, I felt I was OK.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46- I could speak Welsh to the kids.
0:11:46 > 0:11:51- Their Welsh improved - and they helped me to learn more.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04- Since turning 40...
0:12:05 > 0:12:09- ..I've understood it's important - to spend more time with family.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13- More time - with the people important to you.
0:12:14 > 0:12:15- My daughter is 19.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18- She'll be leaving home soon.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21- It's important - to spend time with her...
0:12:21 > 0:12:24- ..before she - has a family of her own.
0:12:24 > 0:12:28- My son is ill with OCD.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32- It's important to me - to spend more time with him.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35- OCD is awful.
0:12:35 > 0:12:36- It's like a bully.
0:12:37 > 0:12:42- He has thoughts which go round and - round and he can't get rid of them.
0:12:43 > 0:12:49- He couldn't do basic things - like brush his teeth and write.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51- He had to stay home.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55- He's 14, - so it's really affecting him...
0:12:55 > 0:13:00- ..when it's very important to be at - school learning and seeing friends.
0:13:00 > 0:13:04- We're learning to live with it - but it's hard.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08- It drags everyone in the family - in too.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10- It causes everyone stress.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14- It makes us argue with each other - but then we think...
0:13:15 > 0:13:17- .."Actually, it's the OCD."
0:13:17 > 0:13:22- But the OCD uses Reuben to make - thinks difficult within the family.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25- He's undergoing treatment - but it's a mental illness.
0:13:26 > 0:13:31- It's a problem that's in Reuben's - head that he'll deal with, I think.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35- We're doing everything - we can to help him deal with it.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41- If you looked for - a silver lining, a small one...
0:13:41 > 0:13:44- ..it's made him a lot more open.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47- He talks a lot more - about his feelings...
0:13:48 > 0:13:51- ..what he wants to do, - what he has done...
0:13:52 > 0:13:55- ..and how he deals with the OCD.
0:13:55 > 0:14:00- I'm very proud - of how he's dealt with it.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03- He still has a lot of work to do. - A lot of work.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06- He may have to work at it - throughout his life.
0:14:06 > 0:14:11- But, I'm very proud that he's trying - to fight the bully in his head.
0:14:21 > 0:14:25- I ran the London Marathon - for two charities...
0:14:25 > 0:14:30- ..Young Minds and Heads Together, - because they helped us with Reuben.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34- Heads Together - is a royal charity...
0:14:35 > 0:14:38- ..so I met Prince Harry, - Prince William and Kate.
0:14:38 > 0:14:43- They're really good - they help - to raise money and awareness...
0:14:44 > 0:14:46- ..for mental health charities.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50- They do a lot of important work.
0:14:54 > 0:14:59- The London Marathon is fantastic. - The atmosphere's amazing.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02- A lot of people - are there supporting you.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05- There are thousands of runners...
0:15:06 > 0:15:10- ..raising money and awareness - for charities.
0:15:10 > 0:15:15- It makes you feel good about people - running the London Marathon.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24- I've had a lovely day on the Gower.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27- The beach was empty - and the sun was out.
0:15:27 > 0:15:31- I've had a chance to run and - keep fit, which is important to me.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34- It's also been a chance - to come back to Wales.
0:15:34 > 0:15:38- I don't come back as often as - I'd like, so it's been really good.
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0:15:50 > 0:15:52- London
0:16:16 > 0:16:18- Hi, a latte, please.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20- This is King's College London.
0:16:21 > 0:16:26- I went here in 1993 - and stayed for three years.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30- That should get me going - in the morning. Thanks.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38- I enjoyed Geography at school...
0:16:38 > 0:16:41- ..so I wanted to study it - at university.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45- I really liked London. - I wanted to go to London.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48- It was like a magnet - pulling me to the capital.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53- I was very lucky - to get a place at King's.
0:16:53 > 0:16:58- They'd probably want 3A*s.
0:16:58 > 0:16:59- I didn't get that.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03- I wasn't top of the class - at school or here.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07- I matured, to be honest.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10- Things were starting to fall - into place.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13- I had an excellent tutor - in the second year.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16- She told me I had to work hard.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19- I listened to her.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22- I began to grow academically.
0:17:22 > 0:17:28- I discovered I could perform well - academically when I was here.
0:17:28 > 0:17:34- Something important happened too - - I met the love of my life here.
0:17:47 > 0:17:48- Here it is.
0:17:48 > 0:17:52- It's pretty, isn't it? This is - the chapel in King's College.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55- It's a good place - to meet your future wife!
0:17:57 > 0:18:00- Luned and I - were in the King's Players...
0:18:00 > 0:18:02- ..an amateur dramatic society.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07- She was an actress - and I played the violin.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10- I was in the orchestra.
0:18:10 > 0:18:15- Her housemate wrote a musical - and we rehearsed here.
0:18:16 > 0:18:20- She came in, - in a grump to be honest!
0:18:21 > 0:18:22- It was nerves.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25- She was nervous and shy.
0:18:25 > 0:18:30- I got to know her during rehearsals.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34- We got on well. We had a lot of fun.
0:18:35 > 0:18:40- We went out socially quite a lot - in London - gigs, bars, clubs.
0:18:44 > 0:18:48- We also went to the King's College - bar, Waterfront, quite a lot...
0:18:49 > 0:18:50- ..to have sandwiches.
0:19:14 > 0:19:15- This is the Waterfront bar.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19- I spent a lot of time - with Luned here.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23- Since then, we've moved to Cardiff, - had two children...
0:19:24 > 0:19:25- ..and moved back to London.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29- That's the young version of me.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33- The university version, with hair, - which has gone now.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35- I had a nose ring too.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38- I had to lose the hair and nose ring - to get a job.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42- It's strange - that he worked across the river...
0:19:42 > 0:19:45- ..in that tall building behind me.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22- This is the Good Morning Britain - studio.
0:20:22 > 0:20:27- For the last three years, I've spent - almost every morning here.
0:20:32 > 0:20:38- I started presenting on BBC Wales, - on 2W News and Sport.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42- I moved to London to work on - the news channel and BBC Breakfast.
0:20:42 > 0:20:47- Then, I moved to Sky - to work on Sky Sports News.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50- After three years, I moved to ITV.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55- I've been living in London - with my family for over ten years.
0:20:59 > 0:21:03- The worst thing about working - on Good Morning Britain...
0:21:03 > 0:21:07- ..is waking up early - - 4.00am five days a week.
0:21:07 > 0:21:11- I have to go to bed so early.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13- The kids put me to bed!
0:21:13 > 0:21:16- It's a role reversal in my family.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21- The best thing is winning an - argument with Piers Morgan on air.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25- It doesn't happen a lot - but when it does, I feel happy.
0:21:26 > 0:21:31- It's important as he's so confident - and he needs to be put in his place.
0:21:31 > 0:21:37- There is quite a lot of sexism in - sport, it sits really uncomfortably.
0:21:37 > 0:21:41- It's an interesting debate. - I know Chris Gayle very well.
0:21:42 > 0:21:46- That tells me what I need to know - - that's why you support him.
0:21:46 > 0:21:50- Piers has a huge personality - but everyone's very confident.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54- It's important that you're confident - and determined...
0:21:54 > 0:21:59- ..and also to have skin - like a rhinoceros - very thick.
0:22:04 > 0:22:08- It was exciting - to work on Good Morning Britain...
0:22:08 > 0:22:10- ..because it was a new show.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13- It was really nice - to shape the show.
0:22:17 > 0:22:22- I don't think there are enough black - people on television in Britain.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25- In terms of numbers, - there aren't enough.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29- However, my own personal experience - is very positive.
0:22:45 > 0:22:50- Thinking about three places has made - me realize one important thing.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53- There's not one place - which defines me.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57- I'm a mixture - of all the places I've lived.
0:22:57 > 0:23:03- That's interesting because - I'm from a mixed-race background.
0:23:04 > 0:23:08- From starting in New York - to Essex, to London...
0:23:09 > 0:23:10- ..and Wales...
0:23:10 > 0:23:14- ..every place - has made me who I am now.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19- My home is in one place - - where my family lives.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22- It was in Wales - and now it's in London.
0:23:23 > 0:23:27- I'm happy here. That's where - I'm at now - very happy.
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