Ampleforth headmaster Peter Roberts speaks to Oleńka Hamilton about his new mission
I was looking forward to speaking to Peter Roberts, the new headmaster of Ampleforth. Having left The King’s School, Canterbury, just six years before he took over as headmaster, a position he held from 2011 until his retirement in 2022, I had heard a bit about him already and knew that he had been popular there; I can tell why. Affable, warm and erudite, knowing that I have Polish links, he immediately tells me how interested he is in Polish history and how much he admires the work of one of my favourite writers, Ryszard Kapuściński.
