At Home: S3E08 - Nadia Nadim

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Colin visits Danish international footballer Nadia Nadim in Paris and talks about her journey from Afghanistan to Denmark as a refugee with her family after her father was killed. She discusses how her football career has since taken her to the USA, Manchester City and now Paris Saint-Germain. And Nadia also reveals why she’s holding off the final months completing her studies to become a surgeon.

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0:00.0	It's 2003 in Birmingham.
0:04.4	Doors have been slammed in your face, you're not welcome here.
0:07.1	They were capable of murder.
0:08.4	Drive-by killings, gang wars, a vigilante group that fought against Jamaica's notorious yardies.
0:15.6	The home boy thought we're not going to take this anymore.
0:17.8	We're going to be even more violent than you.
0:19.6	Before turning on each other.
0:22.0	I'm Livy Haydock and this is gangster, the story of the Burger Bar boys.
0:27.6	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:30.1	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:34.7	Music, Radio, Podcasts. Hello everybody,
0:40.7	welcome to episode 8 Series 3 of At at home and for the first time I'm
0:44.4	leaving the UK I'm heading over in the Eurostar to Flacked in the Sangerman area of
0:49.4	Paris to meet Nadia and Nadine. One day we're gonna live in Paris.
0:57.0	I promise.
1:00.0	I'm saying
1:08.0	but this time I'm going to say absolutely nothing. Instead I'm going to ask you two favors. Firstly, listen to the whole thing. If you've only got 20 minutes right now, turn it off. Save it for later. She's worth all of your time. If I was to say Nadia is a special person, I'd be under selling her massively.
1:25.2	This is the 35th installment of at home and it's right up there with my favorite episodes.
1:30.6	It could even top the lot. The second thing I'd ask if at the end you agree with me please share this
1:50.6	episode whether it be in social media or simply just tell your friends
1:54.0	to have a listen. Nadia's stories one that should be heard by as many people as
1:58.1	possible because she's amazing. Okay, I think it's this flat.
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