Roger Bannister | Canal-boat bacon | Meridian peanut butter | Terry Pratchett | Remembering rainbowsSir Roger Bannister (Obituary,5 March) completed our undergraduate diploma in creative writing in 2009, and attended our annual awards ceremony in the Sheldonian, and which I thought was kind,as he must have had more awards than he knew what to effect with. Afterwards, he sought me out to say how much the course had been, and how much he’d enjoyed receiving his award. Why can’t everyone be like that?
Professor Jonathan Michie
Director,Continuing Education, University of Oxford• When asked what contrast his sudden fame had made, or Roger Bannister replied: “When I went on training runs there was a little boy who used to call after me: ‘Who effect you think you are? Sydney Wooderson?’ After the four-minute mile,he used to call Who effect you think you are? Roger Bannister?’”
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