• 4 days ago
In this episode we’ll visit enthusiasts at the Gainsborough Model Railway society, and meet an unlikely beauty queen who spends her days tackling spreadsheets at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Transcript
00:00Tickets please, ladies and gentlemen. The next train to leave Platform 3 is headed for the Gainsborough Model and Railway Society
00:06and this service will terminate at the 2024 winner of Miss Philippines Great Britain.
00:11All my friends are saying you'd never have guessed from the girl that we know going to her lectures
00:18to then at the weekend putting on a ball gown and nice long heels and putting her hair up in a nice updo.
00:26But this is pretty much on a condensed scale how it would have looked in the 50s and 60s.
00:32There's so many skills you can learn plus you get the social side of it as well.
00:35We've had youngsters come down here and been quite shy and by the time they get to 15, 16 they're quite confident.
00:41You have your confidence within you, you just needed that little push and now it's all out for everyone to see.
00:56you

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