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S8, Ep8 How to Fail: Bernardine Evaristo

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Royal Family and the Prince of Kuwait

We were doing all of this on a shoestring, believe it or not. And we couldn't afford to spend any money in Kuwait anyway because it was incredibly rich. So they got rid of us at the university. They put up with us for three weeks. We felt that when we were driving around Kuwait and couldn't afford even an ice cream because it was so expensive, that we were being tailed,. as I'm sure they were. You know, the country was invaded not long afterwards. The route from Kuwait to India, which we had been thinking about, had been shut down many years previously because of the Iran-Iraq War. So we couldn't get to India.

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