2. The University Years: Beauty and the Beast
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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. A bit of a mouthful. To most people - and there are those that hate it - he’s simply Boris
This series tells the story of Boris Johnson - from boy to man to Prime Minister. In each episode Adam Fleming talks to a range of people who’ve known, watched, worked or dealt with him.
In the second episode we hear about the university years.
Guests:
Anne McElvoy is a columnist and broadcaster at The Economist and her first interaction with Boris Johnson was interviewing him for the student newspaper at Oxford.
Jeya Wilson handed over the Oxford Union presidency to Boris Johnson in 1986.
Simon Kuper is a Financial Times columnist and author of the Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK
Producers: Ben Carter and Natasha Fernandes
Editor: Emma Rippon
Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown
Studio Engineer: James Beard
United States
The posh lass hasn’t a clue, boris being able to talk to people from different backgrounds. Sounds like she has the same background! Too the majority of folk, he’s repulsive posh and privilege spills out of his every pore. If he recognised his own privilege he would have supported someone from a different background to PM and understood how damaging it would be to the Uk to have yet another Etonian and Oxford alumni.