HOW A LAND-LOCKED SCHOOL CAME TO TAKE UP SAILING!
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Interviewee name: John Peisley
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How does a land-locked school between Hampstead and Golders Green in north London develop a fine tradition of sailing? Physics teacher and sailing-enthusiast John Peisley tells the story to Dermot Murnaghan. Any by the way, this is John's last year at the school and it's plain that he will be sorely missed!
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