My Duvet Flip ft. Lord Mayor of London, Nicholas Lyons

My Duvet Flip by Jack Parsons

Jack Parsons

Careers, Business

4.2 • 8 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Send us a Text Message.Welcome to My Duvet Flip, Each episode, I chat with industry leaders and find out what makes them flip their duvet and face the day. But seriously, hit subscribe to stay in the loop about new episodes, and follow us on social media for even more exclusive content. And a big shoutout to Aviva and EY for supporting this youthcast and all the young people out there. Because let's face it, who wouldn't want to flip their duvet when they have such awesome role...

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0:00.0	The Thank you. I'm Nicholas Lyons. I am the Lord Mayor of the City of London, and this is my duvet flip.
1:08.0	As Lord Mayor of London, I am the ambassador for UK financial and professional services
1:14.6	and for London as a global financial centre.
1:17.6	Welcome and good afternoon. Thank you for popping over.
1:20.6	Great pleasure.
1:21.6	Tell me a little bit, Lord Mayor, tell me a little bit about this fantastic badge that you've got.
1:26.6	Uh-huh. You noticed it. I did, I could not stop noticing it. Tell me a little bit about this fantastic badge that you've got.
1:29.2	You noticed it?
1:31.8	I did. I could not stop noticing it.
1:36.3	This is rather a famous badge.
1:37.9	We call it a badge.
1:40.9	It's quite an impressive bit of bling.
1:49.0	But the diamond clusters, there are eight diamond clusters around the edge here, which were given apparently by Queen Elizabeth I first to the city of London. And this was made into a badge at the very end of the 18th century and it's been worn by Lord Mazn ever since.
1:56.0	I wear it on a travelling ribbon, but if I'm at the Mansion House at big events, I wear
2:03.7	it on something called the chain of s's, which was a 16th century chain, which was reportedly
2:10.9	owned by Sir Thomas More. It doesn't actually look very like the one that Thomas More wore,
2:15.7	though, to be honest.
2:16.6	Wow. And Mansion House, what is Mention House?
2:20.3	Mansion House is the home of the Lord Mayor. It was designed in 1739, took over 10 years to build,
2:29.3	and since the 1750s has been the home of Lord Mayor's. And it was built specifically for that purpose.
2:36.0	It's probably one of the oldest single-purpose buildings
2:40.0	that is still used for the purpose that was originally built for.
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