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When I was 16 I got a school holiday job at Minton's pottery factory in Staffordshire, packing plates. For a month's work, I was paid £44. Everything I now know about the birds and the bees, I learnt there.

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Anthea Turner
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 25
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Anthea Millicent Turner
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