Richard Feidler

For the last decade or so, we've looked on as the United States has radically changed itself.

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It was in a place called Putney on a dreadful council estate.

We lived there for 10 years from when I was 7 to 17 and it's always been my thing that I say it was a nightmare.

Yeah, really that was why it was a bit of a nightmare because my father had trained to be a priest.

He grew up and was schooled in Belgium in a monastery but then obviously didn't.

My mother was born in India.

part of the British Raj so when they got kicked out of India they came back to England and that's how my mother and father met so pretty middle class really you would say but they had no money and they were Catholic so they had kids and I was the second and I remember we actually were homeless for I was about three but I still remember my mother screaming as we were separated from my father because the men went into a hostel and the women and the kids went into another one

And so that's how we ended up in housing because, you know, we had no housing.

It was Putney, so I went to a primary school on the estate.

They had a high school on the estate, but there were a lot of pregnancies.

So somehow my mother got me and my sister Helen to a girls' school in nearby Fulham.

So, yeah, but I still like the place.

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