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Thomas Curran

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714 total appearances

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Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

Yeah.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

That is so, I think that's so important as well.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

I wanted to send to really this, um, it's not, not in class.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

I suppose it is a class issue, but in the UK in particular, that is such a strong, uh, class system.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

And if you come from a small town and you go to a state school, you kind of feel like you don't, you know, you, this is your place.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

And, and if I came through with Blair, right.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

So we had loads of money thrown at us to stay on an education and go to university.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

And suddenly like,

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

Oh, shit.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

I've ended up in a whole new world.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

And you never really feel like you belong because you come from a working class town.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

You're into a middle class world.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

You don't really feel you belong in the middle class world because that's not where you grew up.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

But then again, when you go back to your hometown, everybody's looking at you with a sense of suspicion because suddenly you're this professor.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

And, you know, it's like, oh, we're not really sure what to make of it.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

They don't fit in, I suppose.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

So you kind of in between worlds and, and there's a kind of weird thing there.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

Um, and there's definitely a sense like of, uh, uh, I don't know whether it's a hangover from my upbringing, but definitely a sense that, well, like it just don't feel like I belong here.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

I'm not, I think, I think people are watching me.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

They're waiting to pounce if I make a mistake.