Zing Tsjeng
speaker
5,630 appearances
21 recordings
9 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
Zing Tsjeng’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 21 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 11.
Appearances
But Alan Sugars is a brilliant story.
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He's a working class boy from East London.
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He began his career in the 1960s selling car aerials out of the back of his van.
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And in the 2000s, he followed in the footsteps of Donald Trump, as we've discussed, becoming host of the UK version of the TV show The Apprentice.
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Yeah, but let's go and try and answer listener Alex's question.
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Let's travel back to post-war London to find out how he did it.
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No, it's quite posh, up and coming and trendy these days.
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But back then, it was not.
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His father was a tailor and worked in a garment factory.
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The family was poor and money was always a worry at home.
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The electricity meter that kept the house warm would sometimes run out by Thursday afternoon.
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before his dad was paid on Friday, so they'd need to borrow a shilling from their neighbour.
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And just so you know, in the old days, you had to literally put coins in a metre in the house to get the electricity to start flowing through.
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Alan said, life was all about not having any money, not having anything and working very, very hard.
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I didn't want to have to live that way, he said.
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Yeah, a real hustler.
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So from a young age, he's entrepreneurial, resourceful.
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But at school, he said he wasn't one of the brainy ones.
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He was fascinated by electronics.
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So he got the school boffs, as he called them.
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