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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Tristine Nguyen | 12 mars 2025 | ||
Anne Tristine Nguyen recalls her remarkable journey from a slum in Saigon, Vietnam to a Scottish castle. | |||
| Dagmara Rudkin | 05 mars 2025 | ||
Dagmara Rudkin recounts how she left Poland as a teenager and was prepared to work all the hours she could to pay for her education. | |||
| Abha Sharma | 26 févr. 2025 | ||
Abha Sharma confides that she is undecided as to whether she would prefer India, the UK, or neither of those as her home. | |||
| Steve McCoy | 19 févr. 2025 | ||
When Steve McCoy moved from Malaysia to the UK as an A-level student in the 1970s, he thought of it as a homecoming. | |||
| Andrea Antonieta Schroeder | 12 févr. 2025 | ||
Andrea Antonieta Schroeder left Chile and moved to the UK with a broken heart to try to forget a man with whom she was in love. | |||
| Lynda-Marie Taurasi | 05 févr. 2025 | ||
Lynda-Marie Taurasi always felt Scottish and, in migrating to Edinburgh from the US, she felt she was fulfilling an ancestral need to return. | |||
| Claudia Rivera Echevarría | 29 janv. 2025 | ||
Claudia Rivera Echevarría on how she sometimes unconsciously dials down her Puerto Rican vitality while living in the UK. | |||
| Eve Grubin | 22 janv. 2025 | ||
Eve Grubin was so affected by the differences she found in the English language when she relocated to London from the US that she wrote a poem about them, 'American in England'. | |||
| Yu Yie | 15 janv. 2025 | ||
YuYie and her challenging transition from Thailand to the highlands of Scotland. | |||
| Anouk | 08 janv. 2025 | ||
Anouk, who was raised in Paris by Jewish parents from Algeria and Tunisia, talks with great affection about her community and recalls that she has felt less scrutinised in London than in Paris. | |||
| Anna Blasiak | 01 janv. 2025 | ||
‘If you ask me whether I feel British and how I identify, I would say I identify as confused,' says Anna Blasiak. 'When I go to Poland, I feel British; when I'm in Britain, I feel Polish' | |||
| Claudia Lopez-Prieto | 18 déc. 2024 | ||
Claudia Lopez-Prieto recalls the trauma of leaving Colombia aged eleven and how she tried to recreate her homeland in Croydon. | |||
| Daniel Otu Vortiah Ahiankui | 11 déc. 2024 | ||
Daniel Otu Vortiah Ahiankui, who was born in Spain to Ghanaian parents, recalls a transformation when he arrived in the UK. He was an extrovert who became introverted. | |||
| Dulani Kulasinghe | 03 déc. 2024 | ||
Dulani Kulasinghe, who has experienced double migration after leaving Sri Lanka, registers that 'more open conversations in the UK about racism and empire have led to a massive backlash, maybe the last gasp of the beast.' | |||
| Tulela Pea | 27 nov. 2024 | ||
The Namibian forensic psychologist Tulela Pea turns a critical eye on the credits and deficits of life in the UK. | |||
| Nick Makoha | 20 nov. 2024 | ||
The poet and playwright Nick Makoha recalls his dramatic escape from Idi Amin's reign of terror in Uganda. | |||
| Gabriela Raluco Andriesei | 13 nov. 2024 | ||
Gabriela Raluco Andriesi recalls leaving Romania, finding the freedom to be with her partner in Scotland and joining the police force | |||
| Neethu Sathyanathan | 06 nov. 2024 | ||
Neethu Sathyanathan reflects on leaving Kerala in India to come to the UK, and taking to the stage, after five years, to try and make English people laugh. | |||
| Mira Erdevički | 30 oct. 2024 | ||
The Yugoslav-born film director Mira Erdevički talks about how she came to the UK by accident and has stayed for thirty years. | |||
| Sonia Bell | 23 oct. 2024 | ||
Sonia Bell describes how early on when she moved to the UK, she hardly ever encountered British people | |||
| Krupa Mehta | 16 oct. 2024 | ||
Krupa Mehta reflects on leaving Chennai in India, going back briefly where she met the man who became her husband and her decision to return with him for a new life in the UK. | |||
| Lisa Munga | 10 oct. 2024 | ||
Lisa Munga reflects on living in transit and coming to terms with a sense of absence in her life after leaving Cameroon. | |||
| Hassan Alia | 02 oct. 2024 | ||
Hassan Alia remembers the shock of arrival as a refugee from Syria and his dream of becoming a surgeon. | |||
| Goran Gocić | 25 sept. 2024 | ||
The Serbian writer Goran Gocić reflects on his feelings about the UK, similar to those you might have towards 'an old girl friend you don't want to stumble upon.' | |||
| Fang Wang | 18 sept. 2024 | ||
Fang Wang reflecting on leaving China, speaks of her fondness for big-nosed Englishmen and the joy of the crosses on the Hot Cross Bun. | |||
| Denisa Gannon | 11 sept. 2024 | ||
Denisa Gannon reflects on her irrepressible desire to escape prejudice in the Czech republic to become a pioneering Roma lawyer in the UK | |||
| Amanda Vilanova | 04 sept. 2024 | ||
Amanda Villanova talks about coming from Puerto Rico for a drama course and her decision to stay on and build her life in the UK | |||
| Amaal Said | 28 août 2024 | ||
Amaal Said talks about feeling Somali without ever having been there | |||
| Suzanne Harrington | 21 août 2024 | ||
Suzanne Harrington tells the story of why she had to leave her repressive homeland in Ireland in the 1980s | |||
| Isabelle Dupuy | 15 août 2024 | ||
Isabelle Dupuy, whose family is originally from Haiti, describes why she first resented paying taxes in Britain till an epiphany about the country's social care and social cohesion that was enabled by the National Health Service | |||
| Clementine E Burnley | 31 juil. 2024 | ||
Clementine E Burnley reflects on why she wants her money back from the British romantic novelists she read in her youth in Cameroon | |||
| Snežana Ćurčić | 24 juil. 2024 | ||
Snežana Ćurčić reflects on leaving Serbia to coming to the UK, and how she has come to admire British culture | |||
| Marjorie Lotfi | 17 juil. 2024 | ||
Marjorie Lotfi recalls fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 and how she eventually settled in Scotland where she is celebrated for her poetry | |||
| Maria Jastrzębska | 10 juil. 2024 | ||
Maria Jastrzębska reflects on moving from Poland to the UK as a child in the 1950s | |||
| Colin Grant | 03 juil. 2024 | ||
Colin Grant kicks off a new series, an oral history of migration to Britain, What We Leave We Carry. A group of WritersMosaic writers travel around the country recording the stories of migrants pioneering new lives here. | |||
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