Yanis Varoufakis
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1,142 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 May
Yanis Varoufakis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not that somebody I didn't like, Margaret Thatcher, won a third term and I left.
No.
It was the steady deterioration of the academic environment in Britain under Thatcherism, which was the result of the cuts.
Because, you know, I cut my teeth.
I started my undergraduate degree in 1978.
Then she comes in 1979.
By the time I was a lecturer, I was a despised figure in the department in which I was, not because of my nastiness.
But because I was a very young lecturer, I was very cheap because of being very low down in the rankings.
The older professors and lecturers, people whom I looked up to, saw me as a threat because it was a time when, remember back then, we had 10% cuts every year, which meant that vice chancellors and deans had to get rid of people.
And because they had tenure back then,
They had to lean on them and actually make their life a misery until forced to quit.
Psychological terrorism.
So when we crossed each other in the corridor, they looked at me as a cheap young laborer that was about to replace them.
And, you know, even if independently of...
The actual personal relations, that's a very dark environment in which to be.
And, you know, so I was teaching at the University of East Anglia.
And then I shifted to Cambridge.
And I thought that was the pinnacle of my life until then.
Until I realized that the circumstances there were actually quite dire as well.
And then Thatcher wins the third term.
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