BBCNEWS Talking Movies June 4, 2024 19:54:00
Growing up in egypt. i feel incredibly nostalgic and sentimental about the bbc, because what it does is amazing, really. as a child growing up in cairo, the bbc is the soundtrack to my childhood. we had this old radio that my dad bought as a student at liverpool university and brought back to egypt, and it took a while to heat up, once you turned it on, but then it would stay on most of the day. radio: the bbc world service... crosstalk. and so i remember being connected to music, news, culture, political discussion — all through the radio. and this is an era where it was pre—internet, so ...