Tony’s List: Go West

Fascinating People Fascinating Places

Daniel Mainwaring

Documentary, Society & Culture:documentary, History, Society & Culture

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Episode 3 of 3 As the Cold War was winding down, a group of 11 East European teenagers — barely known to each other — appeared on the playground at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic School in Bishop’s Stortford, a quiet town 30 miles from London. How would the town, and their new classmates react to their arrival? And why had they come? In this peculiar three-part story, I recount a tale of daredevil escape, a fake passport, war, the end of communism, and the remarkable story of these 11 people. Music: Pixabay Featured Guests: Kazik Bem, Neil Rodrigues, Marta Kazmierska-Skupinska, — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/daniel-mainwaring5/message

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0:00.0	Fascinating people, fascinating places.
0:03.0	G'd a and welcome to the Dan Mainwearing podcast.
0:07.0	This is where we talk to and about the famous and the infamous,
0:11.0	the celebrated and the obscure, the well-known and the
0:13.3	well-known and the obscure, the well-known and the undiscovered.
0:15.6	Interviews, articles and discussion from around the globe.
0:22.4	Kuwait is liberated.
0:24.0	Iraq's army is defeated.
0:28.0	Our military objectives are met.
0:30.0	Kuwait is once more in the hands of Kuwaitis in control of their own destiny.
0:36.0	We share in their joy, a joy tempered only by our compassion for their ordeal.
0:43.0	Tonight the Kuwaiti flag once again flies above the capital of a free and sovereign nation.
0:50.0	On the 28th of February, 1991, the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait was over.
0:59.6	So what would happen to the Polish refugees of St Mary's school.
1:07.0	Maybe if we'd understood a bit more context,
1:10.0	we would have been a bit more welcoming but you know
1:14.3	I mean teenagers in the 90s it just seemed like a bit of a moment really
1:19.6	that they were there and they weren't anymore. No, I went back to Poland for a year because my parents decided that it wasn't clear what was happening in the Middle East, even though the one was already one,
1:35.2	but my mom said, you know, this last year of Polish primary school, and they weren't sure if they were going to go back and for how long.
1:42.0	So my mom said she wanted me to be in Polish primary school so I
1:45.2	could get into a good Polish high school which I did. Was it a difficult transition
1:49.8	going back to school in Poland academically or culturally after being at St Mary's and Bishop Storford?
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