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Alex: Persona Non Grata

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This week's podcast is another interesting one, for political but also personal reasons. It's another old friend, Alexandra Hall-Hall, whom I met when she was working at the British Embassy in Bangkok in 1991. I lost contact with her shortly after she threw me a farewell party at her home until I saw her name in lights last year when she resigned as Brexit Counsellor in the British Embassy in Washington in December 2019 after her position had become "unbearable personally, and untenable professionally." I reconnected with her over Facebook shortly after that and we rekindled our friendship. And a few months on, she agreed to chat from her home in Virginia. I wanted to hear about the resignation, but more about her life, about lockdown, about how this affected her. She very generously and openly shared it all.

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This week's podcast is another interesting one, for political but also personal reasons. It's another old friend, Alexandra Hall-Hall, whom I met when she was working at the British Embassy in Bangkok in 1991. I lost contact with her shortly after she threw me a farewell party at her home until I saw her name in lights last year when she resigned as Brexit Counsellor in the British Embassy in Washington in December 2019 after her position had become "unbearable personally, and untenable professionally." I reconnected with her over Facebook shortly after that and we rekindled our friendship. And a few months on, she agreed to chat from her home in Virginia. I wanted to hear about the resignation, but more about her life, about lockdown, about how this affected her. She very generously and openly shared it all.

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