David Zinkin writes: Mark used to work for LBC radio in London and is now (July 2000) working for Sky BSB news. Mark's dad is the famous TV doctor, Dr. Mike Smith, who's still living in Eash Sheen.

A request from Martin:

Mark (or it might have been spelled Marc) was a red-haired boy with round glasses. He entered Dunhurst in autumn 1968 and was one of my best friends for a year or two until adolescence parted us. Believe it or not, Mark and the two Townsends formed a "pop group". It probably had a name, but I've forgotten it. They appointed me their "manager" and sound man. The staple was "Hey Jude" which was then the No. 1 hit. We also put out a magazine on one of those intoxicating alcohol-based duplicators, full of Mark's musings on life and Martin's advice on how to clean your windscreen. Martin meanwhile was feverishly planning a closed-circuit "Bedales Television Authority" which would be run from an already-spotted delapidated caravan that was abandoned near the football pitch. It would carry the group's concerts and screen school cricket matches. A total figment of our imagination but it seemed quite real then.

I lost track of Mark completely after he left Bedales in the early 1970s. Does anyone have the faintest idea where he is or what he's up to? I remember that his dad was a GP in London - I went there once for a weekend outing from Dunhurst - but I have no other contact info, and with a name like Smith it's rather hard to know where to start!

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