An Immigrant's Experience of England
Raj Adgopul
- Region:
- Anywhere
- Notice Period:
- Regular (more than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £150 to £300 plus travel depending on distance from Dorset. £100 online by Zoom,
- Category:
- Entertainment
- Updated:
- 29th July 2026
- Tagged:
- Immigrant England Humour Culture
I arrived in England in 2002 with £5 in my pocket and very little idea what I was doing.
This talk is about everything that then had to be learned from scratch. Why there was no bucket in the bathroom. What a lunch box was for. Why the dogs seemed to be having all the fun. The unwritten rules that nobody ever tells you, and the things English people say when they mean the opposite.
It is a warm talk rather than a worthy one. I am laughing at myself a good deal more than at anybody else, and audiences tend to come away looking at their own country slightly differently.
45 minutes, with plenty of room for questions afterwards.
"Your talk was eye opening and gave me more of an understanding of Indian people." "Masterclass. Very much enjoyed to know new facts." Members, Bridport u3a
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Raj Adgopul grew up in a village in central India. He spent four years working in Mumbai, sharing a room with 23 other people, with a personal space of six feet by three. He arrived in England in 2002 with £5 in his pocket, trained and worked as a nurse, took a degree and a postgraduate qualification, and nineteen years later found himself on the stage at the O2 in London, giving a TEDx talk to an audience of a thousand.
He now lives in a village in Dorset, which is where most of his best material comes from.
Raj has spoken to more than twenty Women's Institutes across Dorset, Devon, Somerset and Wiltshire, to u3a groups in Exeter, Bridport, Dorchester, Charmouth, Lyme Regis and Ferndown, and twice to the Bristol Commonwealth Society, the second time by popular demand. Audiences tend to describe his talks as very funny and quietly thought provoking, usually in the same breath.
"We had tears of laughter as well as tears of sadness." Jen Whitworth, President, Taunton Deane Divas WI
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