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  • The Big Issue

    James O’Brien

    May 10, 2021 5 minutes

    1988

    THE YEAR JAMES TURNS 16

    • 167 die in the Piper Alpha offshore disaster

    • Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is stripped of his 100m Olympic gold after a positive drug test

    • Edwina Currie makes her now-infamous remark about salmonella in eggs

    which, in a private school dedicated largely to rugby, wasn’t exactly a passport to epic popularity. But everything changed for me the summer I was 16. I’d been in an all-boys school since the age of seven but I got into the National Youth Theatre in 1988, and spent a summer going to the northern branch of the NYT in Manchester. Hot only was I with different sexes on a daily basis for the first time in my life but I was also with people from all sorts of backgrounds; I didn’t come from a posh background but I got sent to posh schools. It just

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