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Once I was at a BBC party and I was talking to someone nice about their private school. Then they asked me what school I went to and I said "Oh, you wouldn't know it, just a comprehensive" and they said "Wow! Well done you!"
Then I said "I only did what 93%" of the population did and they looked around and said "yeah, but not here".
I know that bit sounds too on the nose to be true but I promise that's what happened.
Another story - I was on a TV set and someone started talking about their Latin teacher and then everyone else started talking about their Latin teacher and then I realised I was the only fucker in the room without a Latin teacher.
Another one - I had to say a line in a radio show with a word in it I'd never heard - 'cavey'. Turned out it was boarding school slang that everyone in the room knew because they all went to boarding school.
I'll probably delete this in a minute because it's getting stressful. Some people saying it doesn't tally with their experiences - good. They're just some stories, not particularly representative of my career - just some moments when I thought 'Oh'.
Everyone in the stories is nice. I am not trying to make some massive binary class warfare point. I just thought they might be indicative of *something*. And it is definitely not an attack on the BBC.
Honestly, I cannot tell you how stressful it is to find, whilst taking your morning dump, that Jeremy Bowen has quote retweeted you.
