Sir Tom Farmer

The House I Grew Up In by BBC

Aug 6, 200827:59Society & Culture

Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. She meets Sir Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur and philanthropist, on his boyhood stamping ground of Leith.

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