I'll put him on best rx promotions When I nudge the conversation towards the subject of Pike’s own youth – the only child of two opera singers, she grew up in Earl’s Court, west London before boarding at Badminton School then going on to study English at Oxford University – she looks slightly crestfallen. The past doesn’t really interest her, she says. Unlike Dave King, she doesn’t “remember in minute detail my school years, because I don’t think they were the highlight of my life. There were friends of mine who I shared flats with at Oxford who look back on it as the golden years. And I don’t really feel that. I don’t really look backwards. Do you?”