Tuesday 22 December 2020
One of the first things Henry Prideaux mentions on our Zoom call is that he is due to give a talk at his old school, Harrow, about ‘all the things you don’t have to do’. It is not that he wants to discourage a generation of would-be doctors, engineers and lawyers. He just wants them to consider a job in the creative industries. He wishes someone had said that to him when he was a five-year-old boy drawing furniture arrangements for his bedroom, or later, when he decorated his room at school. ‘We weren’t meant to put Blu Tack on the walls,’ he says. ‘But I covered every surface, and put up my own drapes and had a rattan sofa.’