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I have a very old photo in my ‘archive' taken in the 1970s of a much-younger me dressed in, what can only be described as, a vague suggestion of 18th Century costume - thread-bare jacket, a sort of lacy cravat, corduroy trousers and white football socks pulled up to the knee. I am talking to group of children and clutching a mysterious box. I remember the moment vividly for I was employed at the time as an actor/teacher with the Devon Drama-in-Education Team - DIET (publicity material always included such witty epithets as "Is it time you went on a DIET ?"). I was playing the part of a ship-wrecked...