Gideon Rachman, welcome to Trigonometry.

Thank you very much.

Hello and this is

Francis Foster I'm Constantine Kissen and this is the show for you if you're

bored of people arguing on the internet about subjects they know nothing

about at trigonometry we don't pretend to be

experts, we ask the experts. We're here at the world famous Angel comedy club and

our amazing expert guest this week is Gideon Rachman, who is the chief foreign affairs

commentator for the Financial Times, a renowned author and winner of the Orwell Prize for political

journalism.

Gideon Rachman, welcome to Trigonometry.

Thank you very much.

So Gidden tell us a little bit about how you are, where you are, what's your background,

what's been your journey to this place?

Well, in a way quite conventional, but like a lot of things, there's a bit of chance and a bit of luck chucked in.

So, God, what is my background?

So, well, I was born in in London but my parents were South African

South African Jews and their parents had been Lithuanian and Latvian so it's

kind of typical immigrant story there was a whole bunch of Lithuanian, Latvian Jews who I think

intended to go to America and gone on the wrong boat and ended up in South Africa and

and ended up in South Africa, so you know, okay.

So they were there.

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