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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Hashi Mohammed

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Arts, Society & Culture

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In 1993, Hashi came to Britain as a child refugee. Listening to him now, a natural orator, it's hard to conceive he arrived speaking no English. Now a top Barrister, he's here to talk about social mobility, and how in these turbulent political times, this is the conversation we need to be having.

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0:00.0

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0:16.9

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0:22.3

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0:36.4

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Full Disclosure, a podcast project that is largely designed to allow me to spend more time than it's ordinarily available with people that I've always wanted to spend more time with than is ordinarily available.

0:50.8

My guest this week, Hashimahad, is in a slightly different category in that you did

0:54.8

something, Ashley, you don't know this, that I try to do every single day when I go to work. You

1:00.9

created or contributed to some radio that was just playing away in the background when I was

1:07.0

doing something else, constructive and important, and just grabbed me and me in in a way that meant I had to find out more about you.

1:16.0

And obviously I wasn't alone because since you contributed to the Radio 4 documentary that I heard to,

1:23.0

you've published your book, People Like Us.

1:24.9

And I think as one review pointed out, we are going to be hearing a lot more about you in the future.

1:30.8

You're 36 years old.

1:32.7

You came here from Kenya, from a particularly run-down part of Nairobi.

1:38.5

After losing your father, your mother brought the family here.

1:42.5

She also had six children from a previous marriage.

1:45.0

Yes, my mum had 12 children in total.

1:48.4

And you came here as a refugee?

1:51.1

Yes.

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