Two Reds Are Better Than One

Hello, this is Chris Barrow introducing you to October 2019's “Two Reds” podcast with my friend Ashley Latter and I want to start with a bit of an apology to our guest.   You see, Ashley came back from an Invisalign course recently and told me “I met this amazing dentist called Mark Hughes - we need to get him on the podcast, the listeners will love his story.”   So my apology is that I’ve known Mark for at least 15 years and have no excuse for not having mentioned him to Ashley before - sorry Mark, you are such an obvious choice, I’m kicking myself.   So here we have the engaging story of a young boy raised in Derry, Northern Ireland during “The Troubles” and learning to survive in a world full of danger from an early age.   Mark shares with us his journey from there to Dublin, to qualify as a dentist at the beautiful Trinity College and then (as so many of his contemporaries did) travelling to London to really learn dentistry by spending 3.5 years in the NHS system.   From there, one would have expected a t