Hello!

This is a project that Owen Powell and Alex Horne started on October 24th, 2006 (United Nations Day), and finished on October 24th, 2007. Our aim was to prove that London is the most cosmopolitan city in the world, by endeavouring to meet and chat to a citizen from every country in the world who currently lives and works in London.

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We managed to meet people from 189 countries. According to the UN, there are 192 countries in the world, so we've proved that at the very least, London contains over 98.4% of the nations of the world!

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We are still looking for people from three countries:

Marshall Islands; Palau; Tuvalu.

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The final encounters during our year appear below, but to follow our story from the start please click on the links under 'How we're doing' on the left-hand side.  The countries appear in the order in which we found their representative. (Any country with an asterisk * next to it has a brief account of the interview - longer versions will appear in the future!)

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To find out more about the project, including our self-imposed rules, then click here.

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Follow this link if you have the urge to see us looking awkward on Channel 4 news.  Or just below you can see us when we were half-way through the project being interviewed by George Alagiah on BBC World.

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Please email us on worldinonecity@hotmail.com if you want to get in touch, or if you know any shy Londoners who are also Tuvaluan, Palauan or Marshallese.

George Alagiah interviews us on the BBC

Thursday, 6 September 2007

No.128: Grenada


Full story to follow...

Alex Horne – 6th September 2007

With less than two months to go, we’re now in the nitty gritty of the project. And when you’re in the nitty gritty of a project it’s always good to know someone like Jim. Jim was in his last year at university when I was in my first. I looked up to him. He was a bigger boy. And an enormous QPR fan. He now works for the new Wembley (alongside the managing director, a man coincidentally called Alex Horne – something people seem to find inordinately amusing).

Jim knows a lot of people. He put in me in touch with Royan. Royan’s from Grenada. Royan and Jim play cricket together.

‘Yeah, Jim came down to the Caribbean a while ago’, chuckled Royan. ‘Unfortunately it rained and rained so the tour was washed out.'
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