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Mike Smythe neither feels like the best person nor the expected choice to present Just Classics. Like Steven Bradbury, he went in the race with no thought of a medal, only to find himself the chosen one. He was the naughty boy in Music class who rode his desk like a wild horse during Miss Campbell’s playing of the William Tell overture and was not invited to continue studying music past Year 9. Nevertheless, some of that good lady’s work paid off. Hear him at the uni pub drunkenly requesting the old lady at the piano to play Bach’s Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring yet again. See him at the end of a working day in a remote Arnhem Land community driving home with an indigenous woman, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons on the car’s cassette player; she comments: “I love this music, it fills you up” - and he thinks, no critic could explain it better.