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BBC seeks 1970s Eastleigh fridge students

UK: Did you attend the refrigeration engineering course at Eastleigh Technical College in the late 70s? If so, BBC Radio Four is eager to contact you.

Paula McGinley is producing a new series for BBC Radio Four which traces a group of people who studied together at some point in their lives and then went their separate ways. The series will look at the twists and turns that take people from the same starting point in different directions.

The programmes researchers are already in contact with two individuals, Nick Petford and John Russell-Sanders, who attended the Refrigeration Engineering course at Eastleigh Technical College between 1978-79. If you attended the same course at around the same time, the BBC would love to hear from you.

Email paula.mcginley@bbc.co.uk or call 020 7765 5073.

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