• How did you approach and navigate this phase? Was there a preordained path mapped out for you? Did you know what you wanted to do? Did you know what you needed to do to achieve it? Was there a family tradition? Pressure on you to go in one direction over another? Did you enter this phase armed with sound advice and guidance or did you have to discover everything for yourself? Did chance play its part - for better or worse? What individuals had the most influence had the most influence? Any stories about them?

  • If you went, that was university or college like? What are your favourite stories from this period? What was going on around you in the wider world that made any kind of impact? Wars, strikes, protests, revolutions?

  • What were the fashions and were you fashionable? What were the landmark cultural events? Trips to the theatre? The hit films, songs and shows and did you experience them directly? Did any have any influence on your hopes and dreams? What films or programmes do you remember most vividly and why?

  • Was there a particular moment you felt was transitional? Revelatory? Where, if anywhere, was religion and politics in your life? What made you angry? Did you want to protest about anything? If so, would you make the same sort of protest today? What are your perspectives on the same things today? What, on reflection, has changed most over time?

  • Any "Reflections" on this phase of your life?"