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The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK. It’s a chance to listen to Britain, to hear voices often drowned out by shrill anti-immigrant rhetoric. The series explores richly rewarding stories which complicate the very nature of what we consider British. Drawing from the podcast series, the oral history, What We Leave We Carry will be published by Jonathan Cape in 2026.
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Tamara Zimet arrived in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic and feared she'd made a terrible mistake.
More than forty years after moving to the UK from Ireland, Ross Fitzsimons is still haunted by the plight of the teenager Kevin Barry who was executed by the British government during the Irish War of Independence.
Eric Ngalle Charles recalls how he came to the UK under an assumed identity, and with the passage of time, he has reclaimed his true name.
Colm Tohill recalls growing up during a time of violent conflict in Northern Ireland with a mix of stoicism and dark humour.
Joanna Surowiec found that performing stand-up comedy led her to create a deeper understanding of British culture and a closer connection to people.
Anne Tristine Nguyen recalls her remarkable journey from a slum in Saigon, Vietnam to a Scottish castle.
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 confides that she is undecided as to whether she would prefer India, the UK, or neither of those as her home.
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 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 always felt Scottish and, in migrating to Edinburgh from the US, she felt she was fulfilling an ancestral need to return.
Claudia Rivera Echevarría on how she sometimes unconsciously dials down her Puerto Rican vitality while living in the UK.
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'.
YuYie and her challenging transition from Thailand to the highlands of Scotland.
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.
‘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 recalls the trauma of leaving Colombia aged eleven and how she tried to recreate her homeland in Croydon.
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, 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.'
The Namibian forensic psychologist Tulela Pea turns a critical eye on the credits and deficits of life in the UK.
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