Hiranya Peiris
speaker
454 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 May
Hiranya Peiris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And ever since I've done like a zillion backups of everything I've worked on.
You won't make that mistake again.
Yeah, no, no, no.
You know, there was violence in everyday life.
The universities were closed and my parents just didn't see any future for us there.
And they decided to leave everything behind.
So we arrived with very little.
So my mother got a job in Manchester.
We had to make do on my mother's salary, basically.
So we watched the pennies.
And, you know, I was 16 in a new country.
I started in a new school and I'd previously learned my native language, Sinhalese.
It was a mixed school.
And for the first time in my life, I found that I was a minority in maths and science class.
And suddenly people just assumed girls couldn't do these subjects.
I did, actually.
The teachers were really good.
There was a teacher called Dr. Egan, and he was my further maths teacher.
And he gave me university-level textbooks, and he encouraged me to apply to Cambridge.
It felt like a really unattainable goal.
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