syrian refugee sisters, was the high profile opening night attraction. but it was programming created in this building, bush house in london, that once housed the bbc world service radio, that really nurtured sally el hosaini when she was growing up in egypt. i feel incredibly nostalgic and sentimental about the bbc, because what it does is amazing, really. as a child growing up in cairo, the bbc is the soundtrack to my childhood. we had this old radio that my dad bought as a student at liverpool university and brought back to egypt, and it took a while to heat up, once you turned it on, but then it would stay on most of the day. radio: the bbc world service... crosstalk and so i remember being connected to music, news, culture, political discussion — all through the radio. and this is an era where