For context: Blue Peter is (I think I'm correct in using the present tense, but it's not the centre of kids TV it once was) a show on the publicly funded BBC, that seemed to have a general role of trying to make kids more well rounded. I once called up their hotline for a kit to organise one of their charity "bring and buy" sales and spoke to one of the presenters of the show. Absolutely blew my mind that the presenters stepped off the studio and immediately manned a phone line.
However, unlike the subject of the article I haven't grown up to become a world-leading charity sale drive manager, so perhaps I should be more ashamed of myself.
Perhaps. But perhaps that wouldn't have done any damage either as it technically doesn't discourage:
"If [Biddy Baxter's] letter had shown any hint of ridicule or disbelief I might perhaps never have trained to become a medical scientist or been driven to achieve the impossible dream..."
For context: Blue Peter is (I think I'm correct in using the present tense, but it's not the centre of kids TV it once was) a show on the publicly funded BBC, that seemed to have a general role of trying to make kids more well rounded. I once called up their hotline for a kit to organise one of their charity "bring and buy" sales and spoke to one of the presenters of the show. Absolutely blew my mind that the presenters stepped off the studio and immediately manned a phone line.
However, unlike the subject of the article I haven't grown up to become a world-leading charity sale drive manager, so perhaps I should be more ashamed of myself.