ABSTRACT
TRIBE: In your memories of Oxford,1 you state that when you went to Oxford you intended to do natural science? BROWN: Well, it would have been physics, I think. TRIBE: What made you choose to change to PPE, and choose to focus upon economics within the PPE curriculum? BROWN: Well, I had always been interested in that sort of thing. I had been brought up very conscious of political and quasi-economic discussion. My parents were manager and manageress of the Liberal Club in Bradford, so it was that sort of atmosphere. So I got very interested in current affairs when I was in the sixth form. I knew that there were one or two precedents of people going up from Bradford Grammar School on science scholarships and changing to PPE. So when I got my scholarship I asked if I could change and they said, ‘Well, come up and do an examination.’ So I went up and did an examination and they let me change. TRIBE: So you changed before you started in Oxford, rather than after your first year? BROWN: I didn’t actually do any sciences at Oxford. TRIBE: Have you got any idea of how many there were similar to you within the PPE doing the economics stream?
