Thirty years in one job seems unfathomable to most younger people. But for journalists, Dame Jenni Murray and Lucy Kellaway, professional success, a good income and a passion for the work kept them at the BBC and the Financial Times for the majority of their working lives. In this final episode in our series, they open up about their shared experience of saying goodbye to the institutions that defined them, and tell us honestly whether they wish they'd done it sooner. 

Now I'm Grown Up is hosted by Jenni Murray, produced by Antonia Cundy and Theodora Louloudis, and brought to you by Now Teach. The credits for this episode were read by Livvie Podbur.

To find out more about Now Teach, visit www.nowteach.org.uk.

It’s not a stretch to say that an inspirational teacher can really change your life. 

Broadcaster and author Jenni Murray explores the life-long importance of this student-teacher bond with one particular former student and his teacher. Bobby Seagull, an investment banker-turned-maths teacher, author, and TV presenter, joins Jenni alongside Nick Christie — or Mr Christie — his maths teacher from secondary school, to talk about the impact a teacher can have long beyond our school days.

Now I'm Grown Up is hosted by Jenni Murray, produced by Antonia Cundy and Theodora Louloudis, and brought to you by Now Teach. The credits for this episode were read by Livvie Podbur.

To find out more about Now Teach, visit www.nowteach.org.uk.

“What’s the point of school?” might be a question you most often associate with a grumpy teenager. But it’s something society also needs to be asking itself: what are schools for? To learn facts and theories, equations and quotations? To build intangible skills, like confidence, resilience, and how to work in teams? To inspire minds, to pass exams, or just to keep kids off the Xbox?
 
To discuss what schools are really for, broadcaster and author Jenni Murray is joined by Lucy Kellaway, a former Financial Times journalist who retrained as an economics teacher while co-founding the education charity Now Teach, and Jeffery Quaye, National Director of Education and Standards at the Aspirations Academies Trust and an adviser to the Department of Education.
 
Now I'm Grown Up is hosted by Jenni Murray, produced by Antonia Cundy and Theodora Louloudis, and brought to you by Now Teach. The credits for this episode were read by Tye Hulbert.
 
To find out more about Now Teach, visit www.nowteach.org.uk.