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Now I'm Grown Up

Now Teach

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Frequency: 1 episode/10d. Total Eps: 8

From chief executives to world-class journalists, more and more professionals are trading in their desk chairs for a seat in the staffroom. Tackling topics such as the 100-year life and education inequality, host Jenni Murray explores the ideas behind a second career in teaching — and hears from the people who’ve done it. New episodes on Wednesdays. Search 'Now Teach' for more information.

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Jenni Murray and Lucy Kellaway on starting over

Wednesday, July 7, 2021 • Duration 33:25

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.

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Teacher meets teacher

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 • Duration 26:42

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.

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What are schools for?

Wednesday, May 26, 2021 • Duration 27:21

“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.

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The education revolution

Wednesday, May 19, 2021 • Duration 29:04

From the way we teach to what we teach — and from the sex ed syllabus to free schools and academies — education has changed dramatically in recent decades. Across the country, there’s been an education revolution underway, and being a teacher now is more exciting than ever before.

To discuss how our classrooms and curriculums have changed since you were at school, broadcaster and author Jenni Murray is joined by Guardian education columnist Laura McInerney and former education secretary David Blunkett.

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.

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The ripple effect

Wednesday, May 12, 2021 • Duration 26:19

Health, wealth and wellbeing. Key determinants of how our lives pan out. And one of the biggest ways to guarantee them in a child's life? A good education. Broadcaster and author Jenni Murray is joined by the “Covid Catch-up Tsar” Sir Kevan Collins and Dame Rachel de Souza, Children’s Commissioner for England, to discuss why your schooldays are so important, and how their legacy leaves a ripple effect across an individual’s life, as well as in society at large.

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.

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What you give and what you get

Wednesday, May 5, 2021 • Duration 28:42

We all know the key ingredients to a long and healthy life: good genes, good luck, healthy food, regular exercise. And according to many studies, a sense of purpose should be high up that list too. But over a 100-year life span, how do we make sure our sense of purpose doesn’t run out?

Broadcaster and author Jenni Murray digs into this critical question, exploring how our motivations change as we get older, and why a second career that makes a difference could give us all a new spring in our step.

To discuss what you give and what you get from a second career, Jenni is joined by social entrepreneur Marc Freedman, professor of gerontology Dr Martin Hyde, and Anne-Marie Lawlor, a former civil servant responsible for government policy on career guidance, who retrained as a foreign language teacher to renew her own sense of purpose.

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.

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The 100-year life

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 • Duration 27:34

The way we live now wasn’t designed for a 100-year life span. But that’s set to become the norm for children born today, and the well-established pathway of education-work-retirement is starting to crumble. Broadcaster and author, Jenni Murray, is joined by economist Andrew J Scott and social entrepreneur Katie Waldegrave to discuss why our modern lives need a redesign — and why a longer life span means we're more suited to a second career than ever before.

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.

With thanks to Andrew J Scott for permission to use the title of his book with Lynda Gratton, The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity.

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Introducing Now I'm Grown Up

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 • Duration 01:44

Follow this feed to make sure you don't miss Now I'm Grown Up, a podcast about our longer lives, career change and education, hosted by Dame Jenni Murray and brought to you by Now Teach.

For more information, visit www.nowteach.org.uk.

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