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Getting into Trouble
Richard Rieser: Bloody Nose
Richard was born in 1948 in London. He attended private mainstream primary schools and then went to his local mainstream secondary school and on to university.
Here Richard talks about getting into fights at school.
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Transcript
And if people made fun of me, which they did occasionally, I was very quick with my fists, so I would give them a bloody nose, and that was why I got into trouble quite a bit I think. And I got into trouble at school, because I wasn’t very good at the formal learning, so I became a class clown.Explore more
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