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Sep 12, 2026
Tim AbrahamsHOST
Third-generation Mexican modernists arriving in London with a landscape-oriented idea of what architecture can be.
Tim AbrahamsHOST
If I worked in the British Council, I'd be looking at ways to capitalise on the links made between England and Mexico, thanks to the very genuine moment the two nations shared in an extraordinary sporting moment.
Tim AbrahamsHOST
On an architectural side, fascinating time for Sorda Maddalena to arrive in Europe.
Tim AbrahamsHOST
Their scale sits perhaps outside our focus on the existing fabric of cities, contextual.
Tim AbrahamsHOST
Third-generation Mexican modernists arriving in London with a landscape-oriented idea of what architecture can be.
Tim AbrahamsHOST
If I worked in the British Council, I'd be looking at ways to capitalise on the links made between England and Mexico, thanks to the very genuine moment the two nations shared in an extraordinary sporting moment.
Tim AbrahamsHOST
On an architectural side, fascinating time for Sorda Maddalena to arrive in Europe.
Tim AbrahamsHOST
Their scale sits perhaps outside our focus on the existing fabric of cities, contextual.
Claudia HannaHOST
Most bankers probably would wish they could have had.
Rajan DatarGUEST
like to think so i'd like to think so um so uh yes so i did fail on that count but um it's been a very very rich which existence since then um and the band even went and played in india um because the british council adopted us there's a big cultural organization in the uk and took us around the world to all the stands kazakhstan turkmenistan etc to jamaica to canada to the us a little bit to um indonesia uh you know it's and in india was like wow and there i am seeing members of my family who doesn't really know me because i haven't really we haven't really met met And there I am playing in Mumbai with the band.
Rajan DatarGUEST
And it's like, must be the most bizarre thing for them.
Rajan DatarGUEST
They got
John EnglishGUEST
The departments established their own libraries.
John EnglishGUEST
And the relationship had broken down with many departments, including not least the British Council.
John EnglishGUEST
So Sheila's thought that things should be looked at.
John EnglishGUEST
And I had been one who passed on comments from historians and others about the archives.
Ryan NeitzeyHOST
They were still a communist country, but they were, um, more open to sort of social, uh, cultural freedom of speech sort of things than a lot of other communist countries as far as I could, you know, research.
Ryan NeitzeyHOST
And during this period, immediately after the Hungarian Revolution, through the British Council, um, Britain is trying to establish and n- and negotiate a cultural, uh, and economic trade, uh, with Hungary.
Ryan NeitzeyHOST
Uh, and they eventually establish it, and it becomes a thing in the '60s.
Ryan NeitzeyHOST
Uh, Hungary gets a little bit worried that it might be a, a way of being a spy program, which that could also be true, um, as, as, as some of my research suggests.
Fuchsia DunlopGUEST
They do these fantastic summer scholarships.
Fuchsia DunlopGUEST
Then I got a British Council scholarship to go and spend a year in China.
Fuchsia DunlopGUEST
That was 1994 and I chose Sichuan University in Chengdu, the Sichuanese capital.
Fuchsia DunlopGUEST
partly because I'd had a spectacular lunch there the year before, and also because it was famed as being one of the centres of a great regional cuisine.
Ryan NeitzeHOST
They were still a communist country, but they were, um, more open to sort of social, uh, cultural freedom of speech sort of things than a lot of other communist countries as far as I could, you know, research.
Ryan NeitzeHOST
And during this period immediately after the Hungarian Revolution, through the British Council, um, Britain is trying to establish and n- and negotiate a cultural, uh, an economic trade, uh, with Hungary.
Ryan NeitzeHOST
Uh, and they eventually establish it, and it becomes a thing in the '60s.
Ryan NeitzeHOST
Uh, Hungary gets a little bit worried that it might be a, a way of being a spy program, which that could also be true, um, as, as, as some of my research suggests.
Chris GrimesGUEST
I had a very sort of naive, prepubescent experience of Uganda, but I, I'll never forget it.
Chris GrimesGUEST
But my mum and dad were 1960s trailblazers by my dad as an expat moving to Uganda from Middlesbrough with three kids, me being one of them, under the age of eight, and my mum to Uganda to be a teacher for the British Council.
Chris GrimesGUEST
Why they were the halcyon days, I now know rather profoundly with a bit of vulnerability coming, um, was because our family was complete.
Claire PedrickHOST
Yeah.
Kwame SafoGUEST
And I, with that expertise as a DJ producer and now working within the arena of music export, it's part of my remit to understand what are the metrics of success across black music genres, not just in the UK, but internationally.
Kwame SafoGUEST
And I, at times get invited in my British Council capacity to go out to different conferences and speak, bringing my expertise to the British Council as well.
Kwame SafoGUEST
So I was in there in a capacity scoping, understanding, what are popular music genres, what are the parts of the infrastructure which are missing in that country which we could learn from or which we could help with and vice versa.
Kwame SafoGUEST
And using that information, travelling a little bit to build up a bigger picture as to where there's demand for specific Black music genres, who needs to be paired with who geographically, where there is of quote-unquote UK benefit to the UK economy on these relationships.
Ash MahmoodGUEST
I started to run.
Ash MahmoodGUEST
the heat which is very strange thing to do i look back and think that was quite impressive that i would just go off and do a bit of a run just to clear my head and i started to focus and started to find out what i wanted to do with my life although it probably wasn't still the right thing but it's all i knew was i need to get back to england and study and go to college and um take up some a levels and pass some gcses or whatever o levels at the time so i went through at the British Council and studied on my own because I didn't quite fit into the school system there and so I ended up doing studying by myself at home which wasn't easy because I also wanted to I also found myself it's a long story but I found myself with a big motorbike so I used to go off riding my motorbike which was not very good when you're 15 years old and pretty dangerous as well but um And then I was hanging around with some friends and it's so easy to just stop studying and go out and you know, just hang out.
Ash MahmoodGUEST
But I did have a focus that I had to get out of here and I couldn't really stay here.
Ash MahmoodGUEST
And so I somehow got through, got enough GCSEs to come back to England.
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