By Peter Robertson For Weekend Magazine
Published: 22:30 GMT, 8 March 2019 | Updated: 22:30 GMT, 8 March 2019
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Celebrities share the stories behind their favourite photos. This week it’s doctor and TV presenter Miriam Stoppard, 81
Miriam Stoppard, 81, (pictured) reveals the stories behind a selection of her favourite photos
1949: This is me at Central Newcastle High School – I’m in the second row, on the left. It was a fee-paying school in the posh part of town and there’s no way my parents could have afforded it, but I got a scholarship. The uniform was expensive so my mother Jenny, a dressmaker, and my father Sidney, who’d trained as a tailor, made it for me. My education there was the foundation for the rest of my life
1954: Here I am at 17 outside our pre-fab house. This was taken by my then-boyfriend Selwyn. As part of the Jewish community where most of the girls were well off, I felt I had to keep my end up with my clothes. Most of what I’m wearing here I made myself – even the purse was cardboard covered in blackout material. Dad wanted one of his children to be a doctor, and as I was his first-born he told me I’d be one. I was just starting my A-levels and I went on to do medicine at King’s College, Newcastle
1968: I had forsaken a career in medicine because I went up for a senior job and an inferior man got the job. In a fit of pique I decided I didn’t want to have anything more to do with the old boys’ network. I saw a job in the pharmaceutical industry, dashed off a letter and got the job. This
