How heavy was the Coleridge involvement and why?
Coleridge is the local secondary school and I’d made strong links with the local primary school but nothing with Coleridge. The real landmark piece that came out of the collaboration was the recording of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. We suggested it almost flippantly at the initial meeting and were proposing it really as a device that would introduce the radio project to the whole school and give everybody some involvement. We were clear we didn’t want to do class-based projects, we wanted to work with students out of school time, with students who were doing it because they wanted to be involved. So we knew we’d only be able to work in an intensive way with a few students. We weren’t that hopeful of it being a fantastic piece of work, really. Now we’re getting Friends of Coleridge society wanting to buy copies and I’m about to send it off to a publisher and there’s a real buzz about it, it’s turned into a quite extraordinary piece of work. It was a fantastic experience and it worke
