Hashi Mohamed (Replay): The Truth About Luck & Privilege

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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My guest today is Hashi Mohamed, one of the UK’s leading barristers, a BBC broadcaster and author on social mobility in Britain. His book is out now, called People Like Us. He is one of 12 children, Hashi came to the UK as an unaccompanied child refugee from Kenya in the summer of 1993 when he was just 9 years old. When he arrived he spoke basic English, attended failing school, raised on state benefits in a deprived area of North West London. Today, he is also a published author who attended Oxford University for his postgraduate degree and Bar School on a full scholarship. He is an incredible person, who inspires so many with his story of hope, ambition, success, resilience and adaptability. I’m excited to share this episode again with you. If you enjoyed, please do leave a review and check out Hashi's book.

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0:58.0	Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. This is a replay of my episode with the brilliant
1:02.8	Hashimoto Hamid, a BBC broadcaster, one of the UK's leading barristers, and author on
1:08.6	social mobility in Britain. His book is out now. It's called People Like Us, and I absolutely
1:13.5	love this conversation and loved his book. He has so many stories to tell and so much wisdom to share.
1:19.4	His story is such an interesting one. He came to the UK as an unaccompanied child refugee from
1:25.0	Kenya in the summer of 1993 when he was just nine years old, being one of 12 children.
1:30.5	Fast forward to today, he's a published author and speaker. He attended Oxford University,
1:36.0	and he's just such an incredibly inspiring, incredible person who inspires so many of us with
1:41.6	his story of hope, ambition, success, resilience, adaptability, and also tells us and shows us the
1:48.0	realities and the truths of this society that we all live in. So I'm really excited to reshare
1:53.8	this episode with you, and if you enjoyed it, I'd love it if you shared it with a friend or left a
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