With Alf Dubs

24 min • 7 december 2021

Lord Alf Dubs is a politician. He moved to the UK as a child when the Nazis invaded what was then Czechoslovakia, and went on to become an MP, a parliamentary under secretary for Northern Ireland, and a member of the House of Lords. He is a campaigner for refugee rights.

On the podcast, he tells Lara and Liv about his evacuation from Prague, eating langoustine straight from a loch in Northern Ireland, and putting on a 'Stormont stone'.

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