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I Was a Child Prodigy - Episode 1

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Chris Ledgard presents a series looking at the lives of people who were labelled child prodigies. He meets Mark Bennet, a vicar in Essex who was one of the brightest schoolboy mathematicians of his generation. He won a gold medal and scored full marks in the International Maths Olympiad in 1981. He went on to Cambridge, intent on staying there to become a professor. Tiring of academic life, however, he entered the church. Has he any regrets?