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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: ETON ALIVE – Being black among Britain’s elite

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

What is it like being one of the few black people at Eton and Oxford? And what do they actual teach our future rulers? Musa Okwonga is the author One of Them: An Eton College Memoir, and host of the Stadio football podcast. He talks to Alex Andreou about imperial pride in private schools, why Brexit led him to move to “the heart of Europe”, and whether Spurs will make it to the Champions League… “MPs would learn more about the world by getting off the train one stop earlier, not going on a gap year.” “Schtick only works when people buy into it.”  “It’s easier to name Henry VIII’s six wives than the six biggest colonial massacres.” “A lot of the people at Eton didn’t know black people. I felt like I was representing all black people.” “Eton is the kind of school where you can be a kind of Gatsby.” Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

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I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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networking is the art of laughing a little longer and louder than necessary at the jokes of the person whose patronage you seek,

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of standing silently by the shoulder when they are making a nonsensical argument of hanging around just in case they need

1:15.7

an extra pint of strategically making sure you're in the same place as them on holiday.

1:21.5

It is the least dignified behavior I can imagine, but I will see the boys carry

1:26.5

it out with such ease that it appears to be genetic. I think a great deal about the English

1:32.4

concept of fair play, the idea that there are some things that are simply not done.

1:38.0

The older I get, the more I wonder how much of that concept was created to keep people of a certain social class in their place.

1:46.8

I look at the most confident people in my year and I realize that the greatest gift that

1:52.0

has been bestowed upon them is that of shamelessness.

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