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Mark Bennet
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4 Extra Debut. Chris Ledgard meets vicar Mark Bennet, who was one of the brightest schoolboy mathematicians of his generation. From 2008.
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?
Producer: Chris Ledgard
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2008.
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