The Swedish Ambassador's Guide to Britain

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🗓️ 3 March 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Nicola Clase, Swedish Ambassador to the UK for six years until 2016, is fascinated by the British mindset and, unusually for a diplomat, goes out to meet ordinary people in an attempt to understand it better. She travels to all four countries in the UK, talking to farmers, postmen, writers and to some about to adopt British citizenship for the very first time.

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0:00.0	Hello from the BBC World Service and welcome to the latest edition of the
0:05.1	documentary podcast. Every week we bring you a range of stories from our
0:10.0	presenters and reporters across the world. If you have the time please rate the
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0:21.6	This is a BBC World Service. My name is Nicola Klase and I served as
0:26.2	Sweden's ambassador to the UK for six years. The role of modern ambassadors is to inform our governments about the situation in a country of residence.
0:37.0	Today's diplomats are expected to reach out to a much broader constituency in an effort to understand the mood of a nation.
0:45.3	But many of us would privately admit we don't go to enough places or meet enough different
0:50.0	kinds of people, so I thought it would be interesting to revisit Britain as an
0:55.3	expeditionary diplomat.
0:58.1	Ship ship ship ship ship ship ship my ship ship ship ship ship
1:00.9	David Crockett is a British father Come on on, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, ship.
1:03.2	David Crocked is a British farmo.
1:05.4	Right.
1:06.5	Now, this is Northern Ireland here.
1:10.2	And through that, there, that's a republic there.
1:13.0	So we are now standing in Northern Ireland, but if we take a few steps in that direction,
1:19.0	we will be in Ireland, but we are still on your land.
1:22.0	Yes. Yes, that's correct. That's correct. Yes.
1:25.0	That's correct. We're going up, we'll go up the border that's here and then you'll see the gate,
1:29.0	our gate across up here.
1:31.0	And that's when my grandfather saw the first effects of partition that was called then.
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