Season 2 Finale, “Hey, Teacher!”
The Road from Carmel
In this bonus content episode, our Season 2 finale, after releasing 36 episodes with former pupils, we are giving the word to former teachers! We invited Carmel teachers to record their greetings to our listeners. Let’s hear how well they completed their assignment!! Personal mentions in this episode: Philip Skelker Graham Mobbs Paul Shaviv Alastair Falk Chana Greenberg Rabbi Rony Greenberg Thank you to all who participated; A+ all around!! Feel free to leave a comment letting us know what you liked about this episode, and rate us on your...
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Matthew Engel (1959-69)
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Joining Jill and Doron on the 36th episode of the podcast, the eighteenth and final of our second season, to tell us his story is British journalist Matthew Engel, who attended Carmel College from 1959 to ‘69, preceded by his two older brothers. Matthew attended Manchester University and became a journalist, mostly for The Guardian and later the Financial Times. Initially, he specialized in sport, and has covered over 70 different sports, from cricket and football to tiddlywinks and underwater hockey. Over the years, he reported on just about everything, including...
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Alison Fisch Katz & Sally Green Wallis (1973-80)
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Joining Jill and Doron on the 35th episode of the podcast, the seventeenth and penultimate of our second season, to tell us their story are Dr. Alison Fisch Katz and Sally Green Wallis, BFFs - for half a century and counting - from the northern provinces of England who attended Carmel from 1973 to 1980. Alison Fisch grew up in Leeds. She studied for her BA and MA in English Literature at Bar Ilan University in Israel and completed her PhD at the University of Leeds. A former lecturer at Bar Ilan and the Open University in Israel, she eventually became Senior Lecturer and Head of...
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Raymond Dwek CBE FRS (1949-60)
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Joining Jill and Doron on the 34th episode of the podcast, the sixteenth of our second season, to tell us his story is esteemed British scientist Professor Raymond Dwek, who attended Carmel College from 1949 to ‘60, accompanied by his older brother Joe. Both brothers would go on to become governors of Carmel. Raymond studied Chemistry at Manchester University and completed his DPhil at Oxford University. During this time, both Raymond and his wife Sandra also taught at Carmel. He became Professor of Glycobiology, a field he was instrumental in creating, in the Department of...
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Alan Gordon (1974-81)
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This is our 33rd episode, the fourteenth of our second season, and joining us to tell us his story is our first guest from Asia, English teacher Alan Gordon, who attended Carmel College from 1974 to ‘81. Alan grew up in North West London, where his family had moved from Edinburgh. After Carmel, he studied History and Politics at Queen Mary, and subsequently worked in finance. Twenty-five years ago, he moved to Osaka, where he teaches intensive pre-departure English to Japanese executives. He and his Balinese Hindu wife Ari have had two children. Hear Alan talk...
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Richard Vivian Franklin (1964-67)
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Joining Jill and Doron on the 32nd episode of the podcast, the fourteenth of our second season, to tell us his story is British artist Richard Franklin. Richard, known as Vivian at Carmel, is the son of the late Lady Nina and merchant banker Sir Roland Franklin, a former Chairman of Carmel’s Board of Governors. He grew up in Hampstead Garden Suburb. In the 1980s, he was associated with the family merchant bank, Keyser Ullman, and worked in NY with his father and the late Sir James Goldsmith during the heyday of corporate takeovers. These days, he is based in Los Angeles,...
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Adeline Shayegan (1989-1990)
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Joining Jill and Doron on the 31st episode of the podcast, the thirteenth of our second season, to tell us her story is designer and businesswoman Adeline Shayegan, who attended Carmel College from 1989 to ‘90. Adeline was born in Bath to Persian Jewish parents, and grew up in England, Iran, France and America, where she currently resides, in Beverly Hills, with her husband of 9 years, Robert, and their dog. She owns the three-storey “Love Love Tennis” boutique by Rodeo Drive, where she designs, manufactures and sells luxury tennis apparel, as well as jewelry and bags. She is...
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Henry Milner (1956-65)
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Joining Jill and Doron on the 30th episode of the podcast, the eleventh of our second season, to tell us his story is British criminal defense lawyer Henry Milner. From Carmel, Henry studied law at the London School of Economics. For over forty years now, Henry has been the go-to lawyer for some of Britain's most notorious criminals. Chambers Directory described his eponymous law firm, formerly based in London’s Hatton Gardens and now in Marylebone, as “a Rolls-Royce outfit”. In his book ‘No Lawyers in Heaven’, published in the year 2020, Henry - to whom the Sunday...
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Michael Silberberg (1986-91), Remembering October 7
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In this episode we bring you a recording of an interview that took place in front of an audience of Old-Carmelis, family and friends at a live event generously hosted by David Dangoor at the Royal Society of Medicine in London on Sunday, August 18. Its release coincides with the first anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel. The interview was conducted by Doron as Jill was unavailable on the day of recording. Joining Doron to tell us his story is our first German guest on the podcast, jeweler and Nova festival survivor Michael Silberberg, who technically attended Carmel...
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Emily Cohen (1983-85)
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Joining Jill and Doron on our 28th episode, the tenth of our second season, to tell us her story is British entrepreneur and Israel warrior Emily Cohen. Emily completed her A-Levels at Surbiton High School in Surrey, and thereafter - rather than go to university - chose to start working, in public relations. She began at the Lynne Franks agency in London, advising mainly showbiz and other celebrity clients. She then ran Hilton Hotels’ London press office, from where she moved to head European PR for the Planet Hollywood restaurants chain. Next, Emily founded Pout...
info_outlineJoining Jill and Doron on our 24th episode, the sixth of our second season, to tell us his story is our first guest from Ireland, author Yanky Fachler, known as Jacky at Carmel College, where he was Head Boy.
Following two years at Yeshiva in Israel, Yanky studied Psychology, Sociology and Economics at Brunel, where he also earned a Masters degree in Sociology, before returning to Israel. For two decades he then worked with a multitude of Israeli advertising agencies as an English language freelance copywriter until he moved to Ireland to coach corporate executives in communication. He now lives with his wife in a small town between Belfast and Dublin, and chairs the Jewish Historical Society of Ireland. Yanky is a regular contributor to the ‘Word in Edgeways’ broadcast, and a writer. In addition to his memoirs (“Yanky’s Doodles”), he wrote a book on the Jewish community of Letchworth, in which he grew up, and since October 7th, emails out several times a week a morale-boosting summary of the relevant news. His two sons live in California and Israel, respectively.
Hear Yanky talk about why’ Yanky’ became ‘Jacky’, becoming Head Boy, his act of civil disobedience in the Carmel synagogue, and beating The Beatles to record at Abbey Road Studios.
Thank you, Yanky Jack Fachler, for turning us again to Carmel days!
The chapter on Carmel College from Yanky’s memoirs can be found here: https://www.carmelcollege.co.uk/the-road-from-carmel-podcast
Dedication: at Yanky’s request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of Yisrael Alexander, his former teacher as well as father of his friend and Carmel contemporary, David Alexander. Born in Berlin, the son of a rabbi, Yisrael was - at the age of 15, in 1938, following Kristallnacht - deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp for belonging to a Zionist youth movement, but managed to escape the Shoah on a Kindertransport to England, where he met not only his future wife, Chaya, but also Yanky’s parents. Around the time of the State of Israel’s founding, Yisrael and Chaya joined a kibbutz. In the mid-fifties, Yisrael and his young family came to Carmel, where he taught Jewish Studies, Hebrew and German. He passed away in Israel in 2005 at the age of 84.
Personal mentions in this episode:
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Rabbi Dr. Kopul Rosen (Founder & Principal)
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Abraham Carmel (English & Classics)
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Reverend Bernard Ward (Latin)
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Joshua Gabbay (French)
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Mendel Bloch (Jewish Studies & English)
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Mordechai Fachler
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Brian Bloom
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David Duke
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Stuart Cohen
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David Rosen
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Jeremy Rosen
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David Alexander
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Chaim Fachler
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David Dangoor
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Alan Gold
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Clive Toberman
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Information and tickets for the podcast’s live event in London on Sunday, August 18 are available at https://www.eventcreate.com/e/theroadfromcarmellive - hope to see you there!