This is my first Death of a Nightingale International Student Podcast. I draw on lifetime's experiences as a barrister, right hand man to the Secretary of the Liberal Party in London in the fifties, unexpected business success in a company now a plc and, in retirement, as chair of governors of a special school successfully fending off closure and chair of a residential care home for the elderly. In a world where there are winners and losers I can help students be winners.They are the future and, post Covid-19 and Brexit, every country needs winners in highly competitive, fast changing world. I too lost a full year when I went to Uni when I was diagnosed with TB. My own crystal ball that was cloudy at Oxford was subsequently shattered to smithereens with totally unexpected results. Essentially today people may have to lockdown their bodies, but they lockdown their minds only if they build their own walls round them. I urge people to exercise brain as well as body and in future episodes I will provide some strenuous exercises. More of my writing can be found by clicking www.deathofanightingale.com/blog. It comprises the play Death of a Nightingale staged in London, a play Everyone has a Mountain to Climb awaiting stage performance or broadcast, a Blog, and Kafka's Cycle, slow death of a complaint. This is criticises the Local Government and Legal Ombudsmen "like wrestling with a jellyfish" and human rights lawyers who were unhelpful. I dare not publish this book. I sent a copy of the book to the solicitors. They refused to read it but said that if I published "disparaging, libellous or defamatory statements of any kind " they would sue. None of this is boring!