It's the Brian Laird

show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

With us now, the BBC's Nulam McGovern,

who you hear many days hosting the BBC News Hour program

that precedes this show from 9 to 10 a.m.

She hosted from the WNYC studios today

as part of a BBC reporting trip to New York

and will be a guest in the green space

for an event tomorrow night at 7 in conversation with

WNYC's Arun Venegapal.

And as some of you know, Nula was the lead producer of this show from 2001 to 2009 before going to London to become a global BBC

anchor eventually there. So Nula I often say to returning guests,

welcome back to WNYC but in your case welcome home

well it is good to be home brian that's been a sort of home. I have been just really blown away I have to say kind of

of being back here at WNYC bumping into old colleagues who are of course also friends and in some ways it feels like no time

has passed at all and then you take a minute and you realize I've actually been

in London for 15 years.

15 years.

So what a time walk war up.

It must feel a little weird, right?

A little ghostly almost as you walk the halls

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