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hotels abroad.

At 21, Sue worked

for a travel agent.

At 35, part-time

for a building society.

Everything's changed for me

because I'm now

supporting myself a lot more

than I was, say, a year ago.

At 42, she went back to work

full-time,

helping to run the courses

in the legal faculty

of Queen Mary College,

University of London.

At 49, she was

the main administrator

for their

post-graduate program.

Do you like

the responsibility?

Yeah, I love

the responsibility.

I think I was born

for the responsibility.

I'm now sort of

the coordinator

of the entire program.

So, sort of "Marge in charge,"

really, of the LLM.

It's like my baby, really.

You know, I've nurtured it from its

small beginnings into what it is now.

Thank you very much.

See you at graduation, yeah?

I really do enjoy it.

I get up of a morning

and I don't ever think, "oh,

I can't face going to work. "

But that happens to a lot of

people, so I'm lucky, really.

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Sue, you've got

a lot of responsibility.

Is there stress

attached to it?

Sometimes. I mean,

some parts of the year

are busier than others,

and you've got deadlines

to meet.

But then, in a way,

that's good,

because it keeps you

on your toes, you know.

Never get bored.

Where does the life of my

respectable, middle-class mother

overlap with

a working-class slapper

who leaves her illegitimate

child on a church doorstep?

- She was not!

- You don't know!

She was young and frail...

It started not long after

the last program with Tony,

my neighbor, and he belonged

to the group.

And I said,

"Oh, I've been wishing

I could do dramas for years,"

you know,

since I was at school,

and he said, "Come along. "

That's the time you must

keep on trying

Smile

What's the use of crying...

To stand on the stage

and sing

and have people, hopefully,

appreciate it, hopefully,

you know, but there's still

that little nervous thing,

the butterflies in your stomach

when you're waiting

for the curtains to open

and, you know,

it's a buzz, really.

Realistically, this is the point

you really do have to consider.

You can't do two modules

that are taught

at the same time, obviously.

When I get on the stage to speak

to 500 students,

some people would find that

very daunting.

But I actually don't

because I think if you know they

can never ask you something

you don't know the answer to,

then I think that helps build

your confidence.

And I'm not exactly shy,

am I?

It always takes one, you see.

Once you get one,

other people tend to ask.

You never went

to university and now

you're right in the middle of

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