Senior figures across Norton Rose Fulbright talk with Ingeborg Alexander about their lives and their take on life. The words are given in first person, with no editorial intervention beyond that of shaping to arrive at a final text that may be one quarter the length of the original transcript. First Person celebrates the spoken voice.

The guide

The guide

Nicola Liu lays out the map of her life | Issue 21 | 2022
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Michelle David in conversation with Ingeborg Alexander | Issue 21 | 2022
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'I am black before I’m a woman' | Shauna Clark in conversation with Ingeborg Alexander | Issue 19 | 2021

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'When I came home, my mum and dad would pop out of the post office for a quick cup of tea' | Peter Scott in conversation with Ingeborg Alexander | Issue 18 | 2020
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'I think my father did a brave thing in marrying my mother' | Andrew Robinson in conversation with Ingeborg Alexander | Issue 17 | 2020
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'I think it’s not a bad thing if in your younger days you come from nothing' | Psyche Tai in conversation with Ingeborg Alexander | Issue 15 | 2019
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'We ended up living in Asia for thirty-two years' | Gerry Pecht in conversation with Ingeborg Alexander | Issue 14 | 2018
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'I never got to say goodbye to her' | Scott Atkins in conversation with Ingeborg Alexander | Issue 13 | 2018
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'Friends were getting drafted; people were getting hurt' | Howard Seife in conversation with Ingeborg Alexander | Issue 12 | 2017
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'I had pet rabbits, pet ducks, pet geese' | Janet Grove in conversation with Ingeborg Alexander | Issue 11 | 2017
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'Coming to the UK in the 1970s was a complete culture shock.' | Martin Scott in conversation with Ingeborg Alexander | Issue 8 | 2015
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'My elder son says to me: Mum, you can’t be looking after Tom when you’re 80. So what’s the plan?' | Jackie O'Brien in conversation with Ingeborg Alexander | Issue 6 | 2014
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'I was born during the Cultural Revolution' | Wang Yi in conversation with Ingeborg Alexander | Issue 2 | 2012
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'I fell in love with a rock guitarist' | Sally Macindoe in conversation with Ingeborg Alexander | Issue 1 | 2011