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I Was a Child Prodigy - Episode 4

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Chris Ledgard presents a series looking at the lives of people who were labelled child prodigies. Jonathan Cocking could read Shakespeare and remember long sequences of numbers at the age of three. In 1950, he featured in the national press. But Jonathan firmly denies that he was a prodigy and has been living down the label ever since.