Throughout 2015, the Institute of Advanced Study is co-ordinating the ‘Voices of the University’ oral history project. This ambitious project marks the fiftieth anniversary of the university by interviewing those who have studied, worked or lived near to the university since 1965.

In this ‘Voices of the University’ interview with Dr Andrew Hammond, Councillor Michael Coker describes growing up on the farmland where the University of Warwick was later built. Michael describes the famous Shire horse farm at Tocil Farm and being evacuated into the countryside during the Second World War and the bombing of Coventry in 1940.

Listen to the full interview here.