Samantha Cruzada, Kemberly Espina, Nikoleta Raikova and Tina Liu were (at the time of recording) all year 11 students at St James Secondary school in Exeter. Sam was the Head Girl, and the others were prefects. They were interviewed at the Global Centre in 19th...
George Walker
George Walker was born in Exeter in 1930, and grew up in Newtown. He still lives near Exeter. George contacted us after this website was launched to tell us about Madam Josephine. His story opened up a fascinating new piece of research. Ghee Bowman and Crystal Carter...
Magda from Poland Interview
Magda came to Exeter from Poznań in Poland in 2004. She has married a local man, and has worked in a variety of jobs. She is now a freelance consultant in the fields of health and social care. She was interviewed at her home on 27th February 2013 by Chantal Kouadio...
Tony Cheung
Tony Cheung (also known as Zorro) moved to Exeter in 2004, having previously lived in Hong Kong and Somerset. In Hong Kong he had worked as a travel agent and an ice skater. In 1982 he was the Hong Kong men's champion, and the pairs champion too. Here in Exeter, Zorro...
Ayşe Kuzu Interview
Ayşe Kuzu was born in Turkey, and came to Exeter as a refugee in 2000. She runs the popular Dinosaur café with her husband Abdullah. She was interviewed by Richard Bradbury & Anita Nathwani on 8th March 2013 at the Dinosaur. There are five extracts here - listen...
Abdullah Kuzu Interview
Abdullah Kuzu was born in Turkey, and came to Exeter as a refugee in 2000. He runs the popular Dinosaur café by the clock tower with his wife Ayşe. He was interviewed by Richard Bradbury & Anita Nathwani on 6th February 2013 at the Dinosaur. There are seven...
Mr Pang Interview
Mr Pang was born in Swindon in 1932, but his father took the family back to China in 1934, where they spent the war. They returned to England in 1947 and lived in Weston-super-Mare. The family opened a restaurant in Taunton in 1960, and in 1968 they opened the first...
Mustafa Tellesy
Mustafa Tellesy, with Hashim Rashid, is the proprietor of the New Horizon café in Exeter. He came to Exeter from Tripoli in Libya in 1982 to study for a PhD. Nazima Khan & Richard Bradbury interviewed him at the café on 21st December 2012. You may hear some...
Hashim Rashid
Dr Hashim Rashid has lived in Exeter for over thirty years and owns the New Horizon café on Longbrook Street, with Mustafa Tellesy. Originally from Jerusalem, Dr. Rashid arrived in Exeter in 1982 to do his Masters at the University of Exeter. He went on to complete a...
Olive Fernandes Interview
Olive was born in Nairobi, Kenya during the Second World War. Her parents were from Goa in India, so she was brought up a Catholic in a British Imperial system, which she describes as a "semi-Apartheid' system, wherein the Asians lived within their own communities,...
Tim Niblock Interview
Professor Tim Niblock set up Exeter University's Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. Before that, he worked in Sudan for eight years, and married a Sudanese Coptic Christian. He has lived in Exeter since 1978, and has a unique perspective on Exeter's Arab and...
Samoala Jackson Interview
Samoala Jackson is from the island of Funafuti in Tuvalu, South Pacific. She married an Englishman and they lived and worked in many countries, setttling in Devon in the 1970s. They have three children. Myra Fonceca and Ravi Nathwani interviewed her at her home in...