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Hanif Kureishi

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
432 total appearances

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Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

I think probably it's a real narrowing of the sexual spectrum to think that there are only a few ways in which you can be sexual. I think sexuality and sensuality is a much broader thing than we grow up thinking, to be honest. So you can find other ways of loving other people that are not necessarily sexual in the most overt sense, actually.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

I think probably it's a real narrowing of the sexual spectrum to think that there are only a few ways in which you can be sexual. I think sexuality and sensuality is a much broader thing than we grow up thinking, to be honest. So you can find other ways of loving other people that are not necessarily sexual in the most overt sense, actually.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

When I was in Rome, in the hospital, everyone was white. You never saw a person of color. It's the only monocultural country, Italy, really, in Europe. And Isabella says that I'm wrong about that, that it's beginning to change. But I didn't see any people of color in the hospitals in Italy, really. And then, of course, you come to London around the corner from here where I am in West London now.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

When I was in Rome, in the hospital, everyone was white. You never saw a person of color. It's the only monocultural country, Italy, really, in Europe. And Isabella says that I'm wrong about that, that it's beginning to change. But I didn't see any people of color in the hospitals in Italy, really. And then, of course, you come to London around the corner from here where I am in West London now.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

When I was in Rome, in the hospital, everyone was white. You never saw a person of color. It's the only monocultural country, Italy, really, in Europe. And Isabella says that I'm wrong about that, that it's beginning to change. But I didn't see any people of color in the hospitals in Italy, really. And then, of course, you come to London around the corner from here where I am in West London now.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

And obviously the whole of our huge NHS is run by people from all over the world. And it's just incredible to lie in bed, to be changed and washed by someone. And you have these incredible conversations with somebody from London. Africa, from the Philippines, from South Africa, India, Pakistan, and so on. It's incredible stew in great multiracial, multicultural society.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

And obviously the whole of our huge NHS is run by people from all over the world. And it's just incredible to lie in bed, to be changed and washed by someone. And you have these incredible conversations with somebody from London. Africa, from the Philippines, from South Africa, India, Pakistan, and so on. It's incredible stew in great multiracial, multicultural society.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

And obviously the whole of our huge NHS is run by people from all over the world. And it's just incredible to lie in bed, to be changed and washed by someone. And you have these incredible conversations with somebody from London. Africa, from the Philippines, from South Africa, India, Pakistan, and so on. It's incredible stew in great multiracial, multicultural society.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

But one of the things you become aware of, certainly in these British hospitals, is our dependence in Britain on immigration and other races, that the place... The hospitals, none of it. It wouldn't function at all without immigration, even recent immigration, to be honest. There were a lot of people who had recently come from the Philippines, people who had come from Africa and so on.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

But one of the things you become aware of, certainly in these British hospitals, is our dependence in Britain on immigration and other races, that the place... The hospitals, none of it. It wouldn't function at all without immigration, even recent immigration, to be honest. There were a lot of people who had recently come from the Philippines, people who had come from Africa and so on.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

But one of the things you become aware of, certainly in these British hospitals, is our dependence in Britain on immigration and other races, that the place... The hospitals, none of it. It wouldn't function at all without immigration, even recent immigration, to be honest. There were a lot of people who had recently come from the Philippines, people who had come from Africa and so on.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

And I began to realize that since we had Brexit, which was the breakup with Europe, that we were now importing people from other parts of the world in order to run the NHS.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

And I began to realize that since we had Brexit, which was the breakup with Europe, that we were now importing people from other parts of the world in order to run the NHS.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

And I began to realize that since we had Brexit, which was the breakup with Europe, that we were now importing people from other parts of the world in order to run the NHS.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

Yeah, that's indeed, yeah.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

Yeah, that's indeed, yeah.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

Yeah, that's indeed, yeah.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

It's a terrible dilemma, really, for Britain, because originally our country was almost entirely dependent on the empire. As you know, before 1945, Britain had this huge worldwide empire from which most of its wealth was derived. And now, as a smaller society, we're entirely dependent on immigrants in order to look after people. a slowly ageing population.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

It's a terrible dilemma, really, for Britain, because originally our country was almost entirely dependent on the empire. As you know, before 1945, Britain had this huge worldwide empire from which most of its wealth was derived. And now, as a smaller society, we're entirely dependent on immigrants in order to look after people. a slowly ageing population.

Fresh Air
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second

It's a terrible dilemma, really, for Britain, because originally our country was almost entirely dependent on the empire. As you know, before 1945, Britain had this huge worldwide empire from which most of its wealth was derived. And now, as a smaller society, we're entirely dependent on immigrants in order to look after people. a slowly ageing population.