December 2005 issue

This month's mystery reader was Alain Bertholet, who runs Langues Vivantes based in Brussels, Belgium. Alain started working as an agent in 1985, when he was still a student himself, sending other students to the school he went to in Bournemouth. "I was doing it for fun, but when they said "we'll be glad to offer you a commission". I realized I was on to a good thing," he says.