create the atmosphere within which an organisation could exist, and then the artistic field under graham sheffield you did need both. your own story is a fascinating one. born in czechoslovakia. although you say one of your regrets in the book is that you never learned to speak czech. you might have been delivered by tom stoppard's father. you may have been. yes. there were two doctors on duty that night and one of them was his father. that's right. did you find when you came, and of course were educated wholly in this country and so on that you still had the perspective of an outsider simply by the accident of birth? i think i always have done. i mean, iam british. i'm not english. i can't be english. i think british intellect is a wonderful, inclusive identity. part of that britishness, which i think many people will feel, is the ability to use your origin — in my case, czechoslovakia — as a way of looking at life in a slightly, slightly different way. and, you know, bits of czechness crop up, appear here and there. ifeel a huge identity with, for example, the great national hero, the good soldi

create the atmosphere within which an organisation could exist, and then the artistic field under graham sheffield czech. you might have been delivered by tom stoppard's father. you may have been. yes. there were two doctors on duty that night and one of them was his father. that's right. did you find when you came, and of course were educated wholly in this country and so on that you still had the perspective of an outsider simply by the accident of birth? i think i always have done. i mean, iam british. i'm not english. i can't be english. i think british intellect is a wonderful, inclusive identity. part of that britishness, which i think many people will feel, is the ability to use your origin — in my case, czechoslovakia — as a way of looking at life in a slightly, slightly different way. and, you know, bits of czechness crop up, appear here and there. ifeel a huge identity with, for example, the great national hero, the good soldier, svejk. svejk survives dictatorship and autocracy by pretending to be an idiot, and saying, "i am an idiot." and there's something about that defensive strategy