Since its inception London has been built and shaped by people who travelled to the city to make it their home, for work, to work, to take or make an opportunity. London is all things simultaneously; too big, too small, overcrowded, underpopulated, its spaces exploited or wasted. It is a city averaging a populace upwards of 7 million yet it can seem an overwhelming, lonely place. But it is also somewhere that offers cross pollination, ethnicity, difference. By definition, to be a Londoner is to be a crucial cog in a massive multiculture. In this podcast we celebrate anyone who took to the road with a view to getting here.
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Since its inception London has been built and shaped by people who travelled to the city to make it their home, for work, to work, to take or make an opportunity. London is all things simultaneously; too big, too small, overcrowded, underpopulated, its spaces exploited or wasted. It is a city averaging a populace upwards of 7 million yet it can seem an overwhelming, lonely place. But it is also somewhere that offers cross pollination, ethnicity, difference. By definition, to be a Londoner is to be a crucial cog in a massive multiculture. In this podcast we celebrate anyone who took to the road with a view to getting here.
Meet Natalia. She came to London in 2022 from Ukraine. She was born and brought up in Nikopol', a historic town built on fantastic reserves of minerals, in the South of Ukraine. She had been living and working in Dnipro with her husband and teenage daughter when Russia invaded. On the 4th day of the invasion, she and her husband made the decision to split the family up, with Natalia and her daughter travelling to Lviv, a town in the West of the country. When the UK Government announced the Homes for Ukraine scheme they secured a place to stay in London and took an evacuation bus to Chelm, on the Polish border. From there they travelled almost three days across Western Europe to France. Their journey took a different route from other refugees as the family dog Mira was accompanying them. Listen to Natalia talk about the challenges of trying to settle in the UK on a temporary visa, what she thinks of the British obsession with fish and chips and what London is offering her incredibly academic daughter at a crucial stage in her high school development.
I came to London
Since its inception London has been built and shaped by people who travelled to the city to make it their home, for work, to work, to take or make an opportunity. London is all things simultaneously; too big, too small, overcrowded, underpopulated, its spaces exploited or wasted. It is a city averaging a populace upwards of 7 million yet it can seem an overwhelming, lonely place. But it is also somewhere that offers cross pollination, ethnicity, difference. By definition, to be a Londoner is to be a crucial cog in a massive multiculture. In this podcast we celebrate anyone who took to the road with a view to getting here.
