Adrian Lester

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494 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · More Rosebud - Adrian Lester · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

Yes, it had to be that you had to be... Wow.

You had to be beneath the white people around you so that you could... There was a feeling of they're coming here and taking stuff from us.

So this rhetoric has been used for decades and it's very, very boring.

But that generation had to deal with that.

And so the methodology of buying houses, you couldn't go to a bank, you couldn't do the building society thing.

It wasn't a trustworthy space.

And so the men got together and they did it for themselves.

Grandfather's house, yeah.

So he's Grandpa Harvey.

He's Grandpa Lester.

My mum's married name is Harvey.

I reverted to the family name.

So you are named after your grandfather.

I'm named after some cousins and my grandfather's surname.

What was she like then?

What was she doing then?

I remember her, she was a secretary.

Is she still alive?

She is, yes, she is.

Thankfully.

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