Adrian Lester
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494 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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The accent would, like almost code switching, the accent would shift depending on who you spoke to or how late it was in the evening and how loud you were being with friends, as we all do, you know.
Was your father on the scene at the time?
My dad was, but he wasn't really part of that household.
He would come in and out of it, and he would be away for work.
He was a lorry driver at the time, so he would be away for work and driving everywhere.
And then when we moved out, he was with us for a bit, and then my mum and dad separated, and he went his own way.
Yeah, I think the thing that we grow up with is we learn more from...
It's strange.
I think the stuff that's positive about us is just in our blood.
But we learn more consciously from loss than we do from things we've had and wish to share.
I feel like the kind of person I am is based on the kind of things I didn't have and the things I want to secure for my children.
And so I always choose the path of what should be because I've had a sense of what could be and it didn't feel pleasant.
Who was your first friend outside of the home, outside of your cousins?
I don't remember any from my first school, but I don't really remember that school.
I was there in infants, I think it was like years ago.
I had a couple of friends from my primary school, which was St.
Catherine's, which was just off the Bristol Road.
But then when I came to London, the whole thing shifted and I went to drama school and I kind of, there was a fissure in my upbringing and that world and then the world I moved into to become an actor.
As a child, my secondary school, I had a friend called Wazi Mumtaz.
And he, very studious kid, very nice kid, got great grades.
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